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Office Depot: Windows XP Apps Must Be Microsoft-Approved

Posted by timothy on from the but-they-carry-non-windows-software-too dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article at The Inquirer, by May 30th Office Depot will only be carrying computer products that have been certified by Microsoft and carry the 'Designed for Windows XP' logo. This may be an initial glimpse at how Microsoft could introduce Digital Restrictions Management by ensuring all retail hardware and software products are approved by Redmond."

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  1. Conflict...Hmm by dmp123 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I detect a small conflict brewing between the last two stories...

    Ofice Depot will only sell Designed for Windows XP products, yet the redhat.com page says RedHat Linux 9.0 will be available from.....(you guessed it!) Office Depot!

    Well, this IS a turn-up for the books - who thought RH would manage to get a "Designed for Windows XP" certification!

    David

  2. Re:Well... by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Walmart vs. Microsoft - Always interesting when an unstoppable force comes up against an imovable object:)

    It's true. Both are big campanies, capable of and willing to use exactly the same dirty tricks as each other.

    Office depot sounds like they're onto a loser here. If the customer wants goods that MS would prefer they didn't have, the customer will get it from somewhere else. It's in the interests of retailers to satisfy the customer, not their supplier. The customer is the only one that will give them money after all.