Subject: Re: Another: can't *not* buy Win95 on Dell or Gateway
James Love (love@cptech.org)
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 11:06:24 -0400
Message-Id: <354DD970.1072A795@cptech.org> Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 11:06:24 -0400 From: James Love <love@cptech.org> To: roundtable@cni.org Subject: Re: Another: can't *not* buy Win95 on Dell or Gateway References: <9805040940.AA29580@a.cni.org>
Ted Kircher <kircher@realtime.com> wrote:
>
> The reason for this is probably not because of a Microsoft 'monopoly',
> but because a system manufacturer doesn't want to warrent their product
> w/o some operating system running on it which they use to test the
> system prior to shipment.
These vendors will not sell a system naked, even if you have a copy of
Win95 or NT and plan to install it on the machine. They could "test"
the machine however they wanted.... .. jamie
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