[Gllug] BBC: Battle of the operating systems

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 26 Jan, Matthew King wrote:
> John G Walker <johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk> writes:

> Not only are Microsoft not particularly happy to coexist but nor are
> many other companies. Especially hardware companies. I am tired of
> having to check the specs of any piece of hardware I buy so
> thoroughly.
> 
> Naturally I should ensure that a device will do what I want it to do but
> I want to choose, for the sake of argument, a printer based on the
> quality of its output, not on whether a driver is available for my OS of
> choice or whether the manufacturer is too anal-retentive to provide
> interoperability details.
> 
> And let's not even start on the media manufacturers.
> 
> Matthew
> 
   Please keep asking the suppliers. There are still a few restrictions on
the supply of OEM goods, such as OEM Windows packs, but there used to be
many more hidden incentives not to provide details or any goods other than
those officially M$ authorised for fear of loss of trade concessions.


-- 
Chris Bell

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