Daniel Mons writes: > If purchasing a piece of hardware from a supplier of my choice that > comes bundled (without my consent) with Windows, and upon clicking "I > disagree" to the license agreement, the software is disabled and I am > free of my licensing costs. Microsoft themselves have said they will > refund licenses in these cases, yet the hoops one has to jump through to > get there are ridiculous (I've tried and failed in the past with a > number of laptop manufacturers). When will the process of returning > unwanted licenses in Australia be improved? I have a number of OEM > licenses I don't want or use, and paying for them is inconvenient, as is > the idea of being considered a "successful sale" or "happy customer" by > Microsoft marketing when I clearly don't use their product. Microsoft > have promised to fix this, and I'd like to know what the timeline is to > have this completed. > > I'm not anti-Microsoft. I just can't use Windows to do the tasks I need > to do in my job (it's a "right tool for the job" thing). Why then am I > forced to pay for licenses I don't want/need/use? Surely of the reverse > was the case (imagine if every laptop came pre-bundled with Solaris > without consumer choice), the situation would have been remedied long ago. > > Is there a hard timeline to have this already promised "license return" > service completed?
You can always be as persistent as Geoffrey Bennett http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/toshiba.html (wow, that's almost a decade ago now) cya -- David Drury Network Administrator Peregrine Corporation "He's mostly dead, Jim. Get Miracle Max" -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
