[Gllug] Getting Microsoft off a Dell purchase - anyone done this?

[Rob Bannocks]

In my 2+ years experience with Dell even on a
corporate purchaning contract this was greif.  I 
did this several times but each time the sales man
decided that actually removing windows was so much
effort internally that he just took the cost of
windows off the offer price.  this was about ~20 quid.
This applies to desktops except the high end ones
which you can specify to be purchased with RedHat...
As stated elsewhere servers are a diffrent kettle....

RB

From: "Richard Turner" <richard at zygous.co.uk> 
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Getting Microsoft off a Dell
purchase - anyone done this? 
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:07:16 +0100 
To: "Greater London Linux User Group"
<gllug at gllug.org.uk> 

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On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 18:49 +0100, M.Blackmore wrote:
> Getting Microsoft off a Dell purchase - anyone done
this?
> Any one had any luck getting a Dell out of Michael
of that ilk 
WITHOUT
> the Microsnot crap upon it? I've a legit untied copy
of XP Pro doing
> nowt if I want to dual boot it (haven't had windows
running for a 
couple
> of months now, and then only to pull some old
wordprocessing files 
out
> of an old wp format) and probably don't want to
install that anyway.
> 
> HOW do I get them to take more dosh off? Its XP
Home, which I 
consider
> even more useless than Pro. I installed Pro a few
months ago for the
> first time in a few years, and thought it was dire,
and the 
installation
> process was an utter pain in driver hell etc.
> 
> Any tips or precedents anyone know of?

I'm pretty certain that Dell can't do this - they have
an OEM deal with
Microsoft so they can't sell PCs without Windows
pre-installed: it'd
breach their contract with MS.

Isn't this how Microsoft came into its supremacy in
the first place?

Cheers,

Richard.
-- 
"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."



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