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.

Comments

Re:Total BS

[Macho MadDog]

I do get your point. If you were to ask me, does Microsoft REALLY mean to say that they think installing over the orginal software is illegal, I would say of course they don't REALLY mean it. They're too smart to try to make that claim, because even they would be laughed out of court.

But, if you were to ask me if this was an ACCIDENTAL misstatement on this web site, I would have to say I'm not very sure at all. The misinformation is clearly in their benefit: schools relying on this web site for information will incorrectly believe that they can't accept any PCs that don't have the pre-installed OS, which essentially locks them into a MS only solution. And when minsinformation publicly presented by a company leads to a benefit to that company, I get angry, whether the misinformation was intentionally presented or not.