Re: Why do PC manufacturers not supply O/S CD's with there products

NoStop wrote:

On Saturday 27 May 2006 05:42 pm, kurttrail had this to say in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Ron Martell wrote:

Hex <Hex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I recently purchased a Dell laptop,

I paid the extra for Windows XP Professional because I am a
software developer and I require it for apps such as .net.

Why on earth did I never get the offer of an O/S disk to come with
the laptop?

It is cheaper for the manufacturer to provide a hidden "System
Recovery" partition on the hard drive, and that is all that
Microsoft requires them to do under the terms of their OEM
licensing.

I don't believe that. Do you have some documentation that it is
cheaper?

Common sense would tell you that it is cheaper for the manufacturer
to place a recovery system on a second partition than supplying a
CDROM disk. Cost savings to the manufacturer is the cost of a CD and
envelope and to these nickle and dime outfits that is a big savings.

A CD and envelope cost more than licensing some recovery software for
every PC it is on?

Again. I don't know what is really cheaper, and have yet to get any
verifiable numbers from anyone, to base a reasonable opinion on, one way
or the other.

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