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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Re:Windows 98? by Homology · 2004-04-09 09:23 · Score: 1, Redundant

How odd that they would officially support the installation of an OS that's been EOLed (WinME is the oldest 16 bit still supported, yes?)

Quite the contrary! WinME can run on the older hardware that is available on many countries, and on those PC's *BSD/Linux runs just fine. Actually, there is a UN program for introducing IT in Afghanistan that uses old hardware and software from FSF. Win2000 won't run nicely on those machines, but Linux will.....