At 12:09 10/5/2006, Thane Sherrington wrote: >http://www.crncanada.ca/content/systems/microsoft-to-impose-windo.shtml > >Here's the part I like: > >"Beginning with Windows XP, Microsoft instituted >a System-Locked Preinstallation System. The new >OEM Activation process that kicks off with Vista >improves upon that by ensuring that Windows Vista >SKUs licensed to an OEM function only on that OEM's hardware. >But this means customers and their system >builders and solution providers must maintain >recovery media for each OEM's system configuration." > >That's fair. MS makes most of the money on a >Windows OS sale, yet offloads more and more of >the work to it's so called "partners." Don't >they understand that if they make it painful >enough to sell Windows, they'll force resellers to sell Linux and OSX?
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