Microsoft Authorized Refurbishers

Posted by michael on Friday April 9, 2004 @09:12AM from the with-friends-like-these dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has announced a program to 'establish a vibrant community of computer refurbishers across 133 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa who will be authorized to re-install its Windows operating system in donated pre-used PCs destined for schools, charities, non-profit organizations and under-served communities...Microsoft will provide re-installation of Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows 2000 Professional in over 18 languages. The refurbished PCs will be accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) and a special End User Licence as evidence of a legally installed operating system.' XBruticusX submits a story on news.com about the program.

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In related news by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-09 09:12 · Score: 5, Funny

In related news,
Slackware and Debian announced free operating systems for these refurbished computers...
...10 years ago.
Ready pitchforks! by NanoGator · 2004-04-09 09:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Boy I can't wait to see how everybody takes this as a creative writing exercise to tell us about how this is proof Microsoft is evil.

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Are they going to offer a certification for this? by Ride-My-Rocket · 2004-04-09 09:17 · Score: 4, Funny

MCOSR: Microsoft Certified Operating System Refurbishers?
Something Similar... by The-Dalai-LLama · 2004-04-09 09:17 · Score: 4, Funny

Hasn't Linux had a similar program in place for a while now?

The Dalai Llama
...nevermind...

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