Dell No Longer Selling Systems w/o Microsoft OS

Some Sys Admin sent in an email that he got from Dell which basically says Microsoft will no longer allow Dell to sell PCs without an operating system. Please note that Microsoft is not a monopoly, and does not use their monopoly power to squish competition in the market place. The message itself is attached below, and is worth a read, especially the last bit.

UPDATES

1. Effective 8/26 - New Microsoft contract rules stipulate that we can no longer offer the "NO OS" option to our customers beyond September 1st. As such all customers currently purchasing a "NO OS" option on either OptiPlex, Precison or Latitude for the express purpose of loading a non-MS OS will have the following options:

1. Purchase a Microsoft OS with each OptiPlex, Precision or Latitude system.

2. For OptiPlex and Precision - purchase one of the new "nSeries" products (offered for GX260, WS340 & WS530 - details in the attached FAQ) that are being created to address a different OS support requirement other than a current standard Microsoft OS.

We must have all "No OS" orders shipped out of the factory by September 1st. The "No OS" legend code and SKUs will be I-coded on 8/19 and D-coded on August 26th to ensure shipment of orders prior to September 1st. FYI - this effects all of our competitors as well.

Comments

Re:No -- Re:Wasn't this one of the bigger issues?

[dbrutus]

Certainly God doesn't look with favor on liars and cheats but I think it's a bit of dereliction of our duty to him to not take action to correct the evils we can.

Re:Monopoly Bill Gates is Hitler

[samj74]

>Nazi is not short for socialist, in fact, it is completely opposite on the Facist Spectrum. Nazism is Capitalist, Socialist is more communisum. This is a fallacy. First, Nazi is indeed short for "National Socialist". Second, one only has to examine the policies of the legislative arm and party members other than Hitler to see the socialist core of facist philosophy. Remember, Nazi Germany was the first industrialized nation to introduce socialized medicine and universal gun control. A little known fact is that the political philosophy behind German facism was mostly derived not by Hitler, who concerned himself with more with foreign and military matters rather than the domestic agenda, but by Geobbels who clearly expressed his ideas on the subject. It is a mistake to view the German economy of the Nazi era as anything approaching capitalist. The fact of the matter was, the free market was eliminated under the Nazi regime and was replaced by a state-sanctioned (and often state-run) series of monopolies. "Big Business" in Germany was indeed under state control - either directly or indirectly. This is not a free market at all - but a bloodless manifestation of Karl Marx's predicted revolution.