Re: FN-FORUM: help

date posted 5th February 2008 16:22

Quoting Gary Short [EMAIL REMOVED]

> Oh come on, Windows is practically free these days. I can walk into =20
> PC World and pick up a laptop for =A3400 quid. It comes with Vista =20
> pre-installed. If I tell them I'm going to install Ubuntu (for =20
> example) on it, and never use Vista, do you think they'd give me a =20
> refund on the price of the laptop? If so, how much do you reckon it =20
> would be? That's the true cost of Vista.

Actually, people _do_ get refunds on pre-installed Windows packages =20
for exactly that reason. Most recent example I can find is

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6144782.stm

He got about =A355.

So it's possible. Most people just don't bother.

Dave...