Re: HELP!!!!

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Sorry Stan, but I don't agree.. if the manufacturers and vendors had
anything about them at all, they would do better for their customers..
Gateway and Dell have done, so why not the others.. it all comes down to
profits and tying the customer to their own lousy support..


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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d8431899681dcef9896e2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <OP$b#fJsFHA.1252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mike Hall (MS-
> MVP) favored us with...
>> The only way to stop it is to boycott the companies that seek to sell in
>> this way, but getting the message out and understood is next to
>> impossible..
>> Microsoft have no more control over the computer manufacturers than
>> Firestone have over Ford or GM..
>
> That's quite untrue. Microsoft have MUCH more control because Windows
> is effectively the only game in town for a computer with an Intel or
> AMD chip. Ford and GM are not tied to Firestone: they can get tires
> elsewhere and consumers won't notice the difference.
>
> Microsoft bear the blame for this shabby arrangement because they
> wrote the licensing agreement and the could have written an honest
> one: provide disks or AT LEAST sell disks to hardware buyers for a
> fee not to exceed $____ (say half of regular retail).
>
> --
> Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
> http://OakRoadSystems.com/
> "And if you're afraid of butter, which many people are nowa-
> days, (long pause) you just put in cream." --Julia Child


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