Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Apr 2006 19:00 UTC
Microsoft has urged UK PC vendors not to give customers the opportunity to buy a PC without a pre-installed operating system. Supplying base systems, or 'naked PCs', is a missed opportunity, according to Michala Alexander, Microsoft's head of anti-piracy. Writing in Microsoft's Partner Update magazine, which is distributed to computer dealers, Alexander estimated that 5 percent of computers sold in the UK in 2006 would not include an operating system.
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What an individual reseller does or does not install on a box that they have built is of no concern of Microsoft's.
It just shows how much that company has been absolutely drilled over the years into thinking that it is their God given right to have Windows installed on every PC that gets built and sold, and that OEMs are in their back pocket.
Th scary thing about what this, thing, is proposing is that they're not looking for counterfeit Microsoft products. They want to visit OEMs, resellers etc. who are selling PCs without Windows or Microsoft software - even though it is 200% legal and their right to do so - and collect their licensing tax like a government would do.