Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Aug 2005 16:26 UTC
For as long as most technologists can remember, there has been Wintel, the $250 billion industry dominated by Microsoft's Windows operating systems and Intel's microprocessors. But Lintel, or the Linux operating system and Intel, is now encroaching on this empire, and behind it is the entire open-source software movement, which threatens to overthrow the Windows industry.
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There are very many people without any real knowledge about computers and many of them do a new windows install every 6-12 months because their system is broken.
I bet most of them don't.
They moste likely run the 'recovery' or 'restore' CDs. They're using Ghost, not Microsoft's installation from scratch, or at most they are using MS's installation program with custom tweaks from the manufacturer specifically tuned for the computer they bought it bundled with.
In either case, the CD they use won't work on other machines and a full boxed copy of XP won't install the same way.
Go ahead. Ask them.