Microsoft's Guide to Accepting Donated PCs

An anonymous reader links us to Microsoft's Guide to Accepting Donated Computers for Your School, which contains humorous statements such as "If a company or individual donates a machine to your school, it must be donated with the operating system that was installed on the PC. " It's just an amusing little read that basically amounts to keeping the license with the PC. Also neglects to mention the Naked PC discussed in this slashdot story.

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Re:Oh yeah!! Keep Win in the Box!!

[parliboy]

Q. Why should a donor include the operating system with their PC donation?

A. It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine. If a company or individual donates a machine to your school, it must be donated with the operating system that was installed on the PC.

If you donate the computer, the OS has to come with it. Furthermore:

PC owners have to transfer their license rights to the operating system to your school along with the PC.

And:

Microsoft recommends that educational institutions only accept computer donations that are accompanied by proper operating system documentation. If the donor cannot provide this documentation, it is recommended that you decline the donated PC(s).

I did RTFA. Now, STFU.

Tried to access that page, but...

[knarf]

...obviously my Mozilla browser and Junkbuster proxy are not officially Microsoft sanctioned. This is the result, a result I've seen on many many many Microsoft-driven websites:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'

Type mismatch: 'CInt'

/education/content/DonatedComputers.asp, line 63

This, to me, looks just soooooo unprofessinal... The same browser/proxy combo works on most other sites, except those Microsoft-driven ones and some sites which insist on getting a valid Referer: tag (which I block).

I know I would not want my companies website to display this nonsense to potential customers...