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

[M.Blackmore]

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?
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