On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 19:11 +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
If the very first thing you did was remove windows and never ran it or agreed to the license agreement you are entitled under Microsoft rules to return it to the vendor for a refund. (at least this was certainly the case in the past) So, I think you should be asking PC World for a refund for the unused software!
AFAIK For OEM software it is the OEM that is responsible to honour that part of the agreement not Microsoft or the Retailer (if different from the OEM)
Last time I tried this trick with Toshiba they said that the laptop could only be sold as bundled with that OEM software (in this case Windows XP) and although I was entitled to return the machine in full if I didn't agree to the software terms,but if the machine had been used they were entitled to charge me a restocking fee.
I only tried it for giggles really so didn't proceed any further.