Linked by David Adams on Sat 30th Aug 2008 16:20 UTC, submitted by michuk
Compulsory Windows purchasing by way of PC bundles is one of the biggest hurtles to alternative OS adoption. Some people have been able to fight it: "Reading the Slashdot article about Dave Mitchell from Great Britain, who got a 47 pounds refund from Dell for returning his copy of Windows was an inspiration for me to check, if it is possible in Poland, too. This is my success story."
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RE: Case against laptop manufacturers
by melkor on Mon 1st Sep 2008 04:45
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Member since:2006-12-16
And they'll probably get a slap on the wrist financially (that they can easily afford), and probably done far too late to be of any good...
In the end, Microsoft may pull out of the European market (if they deem the cost of doing business is more than the profits).
Dave
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2008-02-26
The Polish Office of Fair Trading and Consumer Protection is currently investigating a case against laptop manufacturers as for why they include only Microsoft software with their hardware and don't give any other options (Linux, no operating system, ...). The case is likely to get submitted to the European Comission, which will investigate it in whole EU.
Edited 2008-08-31 09:42 UTC