On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:38:09 +0100, Wayne Stallwood aluglist@digimatic.plus.com wrote:
On Thursday 04 November 2004 8:57 am, tom potts wrote:
Anyone know where I might be able to purchase a new laptop/notebook with Linux installed so M$ get none of my money? Preferably from this little backwater of a country but EU would do at a push Tom
This is why nobody should ever buy boxed Microsoft Operating Systems, they are worthless because it's almost impossible to buy a "clean" computer to install them on. Case in point, I wanted a new laptop earlier in the year settled on a Thinkpad, however despite the fact that I own a boxed and licensed copy of Windows 2000 I was forced into purchasing Windows XP as part of my chosen laptop's package.
And that is why we call it the Microsoft Tax.