No, they would save the OEM cost of the product, which is higher than $26. What Chris is getting back is not what emachines paid for windows, she's getting back what she paid to emachines for windows. Emachines is effectivly eating the rest. You can bet emachines isn't getting any money back from Microsoft, and they're not going to take a loss on the machine. Chris is getting emachines markup back.
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No, they would save the OEM cost of the product, which is higher than $26. What Chris is getting back is not what emachines paid for windows, she's getting back what she paid to emachines for windows. Emachines is effectivly eating the rest. You can bet emachines isn't getting any money back from Microsoft, and they're not going to take a loss on the machine. Chris is getting emachines markup back.