Re: XP newbie woes

From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 12:30:14 -0700

I see, so you just came here trolling for an argument!

Have a good day, sir! 

-- 
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:176d601c448d7$5ab86920$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> >Excuse me, in your initial post, you say you "Bought a
> new machine
>>pre-loaded with XP Home Edition."  It didn't occur to you
> that a PC
>>purchased in Spain would likely have a Spanish version of
> Windows installed?
>
> It occurred to me that all multi-language software that
> I've ever written is selectable as to required language! I
> don't recall having too much of a problem with a copy of
> Linux I bought in Amsterdam - or perhaps I was lucky.
>
>>It didn't occur to you to specifically ask the vendor or
> manufacturer if
>>hardware with an English version was available or if, in
> your purchase you
>>could substitute an English version for a Spanish version?
>>
>
> Why should I when it's usually a matter of a multi-
> language resources?
>
>>Second, this is an OEM issue, not Microsoft's issue.
> Microsoft didn't
>>supply the OS to you, it supplied it to the PC
> manufacturer and they
>>supplied it to you.  If you paid anyone for it, you paid
> the OEM and it is
>>with them you must deal if you want relief on this
> issue.  If you buy a car
>>with a Bose radio installed, you don't contact Bose for
> service if something
>>goes wrong, you go to the dealer.
>
> And when I bought my car here in Spain, with a Spanish
> handbook, I didn't expect to have to go to England to buy
> another car to get an English handbook.
>
>
>> I don't know about Spain but in the United States
> there's something
>>called a guarantee of "merchantability."
>
> 'Fit for purpose' in the UK. The goods *are* fit for
> purpose, but not *my* purpose. That 'fitness' I expect in
> the product, as does the reseller.
>
> Cheers
>

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