On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Mark Tomlinson wrote:
rang iTEC (Insite) and asked the sales team, who replied "due to our
contracts with Microsoft, we can not supply PCs without windows".
After
I know that it is true that microsoft have these sort of contracts. I
was
wondering though - is there anything the commerce commision can do to
stop
this sort of anti-competitive behaviour in New Zealand? If microsoft
can be
even made to bend to "cannot supply PCs without an OS", then retail
shops
should be able to supply you a machine with FreeDOS.
Have you tried asking them if they will sell you a machine without a
hard drive? Compare that to the cost of a new HDD, and see if the
"microsoft tax" really represents any money. :-)
