[H-GEN] Laptops

[Craig Armour]

> I was under the impression that this (forced bundling) was illegal, and
> was one of the "predatory" trading practices that got MS into toruble with
> the DoJ in the first place.

The way around it is as soon as you buy the laptop... format the
harddrive without booting windows.  then you can take your cd win cd
back and ask for a refund.  The licence agreement says that if you are
not happy with the licence, you can return the cd for a refund.  to not
accept the licence though, you can't ever boot windows on that machine. 
even the first time you boot it.

cheers;)
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Craig Armour: Kings College,		C.Armour at kings.uq.edu..au
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