Re: Question about OEM XP HOME

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From: hermes (hermes_at_messenger.net)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:43:24 -0500

Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:

>As usual your information is WRONG.
>Microsoft does not force the OEMs "to BIOS lock their OEM Windows XP
>installation disks"
>That is one of the many myths perpetuated by the ignorant.
>Why do you spread this myth?
>BIOS locking is one of many options the OEM are given.
>Many OEM choose it as a simple and cheap means to comply with
>licensing agreements.
>The OEMs could just as easily agree to furnish retail Windows XP with
>all the associated benefits...including higher cost.
>Cost is a factor as to why the OEMs chose, on behalf of their
>customers, the cheaper methods.
>The customers often want the cheapest.
>The fact not all OEMs choose BIOS locking is the proof of how
>incorrect your information here and your site is.
>
>
>

Jupiter, you only lend weight to my point in correcting me. My point is
that if They want to be able to sell XP as OEM versions on their PCs,
they are forced into forcing their customers to feed the M$ cash cow by
M$. Otherwise M$ will remove their business with them. This is but one
of M$'s monopolistic practices. 

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