As already mentioned Dell offered to business buyers always (for two years) PCs without Windows, at least in some countries.
Not exactly this topic but related to the bundling issue: As bigger university we don't need a windows licence but a windows update. Once I've asked our software reseller (anyhow a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner) about this issue. The answer was: "For Microsoft there are no PCs without a preinstalled OS." (Microsoft made, I suppose.) Linked to the main topic, this shows the irrelevancy of self-built PCs in business or at least in edu contexts. (I'm not sure anymore, but I thought I had the same conditions when I've worked for a bigger company buying licences from the same reseller...)
So a PC is more than the sum of its parts. Built together there is also an OS. Creepy!
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As already mentioned Dell offered to business buyers always (for two years) PCs without Windows, at least in some countries.
Not exactly this topic but related to the bundling issue: As bigger university we don't need a windows licence but a windows update. Once I've asked our software reseller (anyhow a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner) about this issue. The answer was: "For Microsoft there are no PCs without a preinstalled OS." (Microsoft made, I suppose.)
Linked to the main topic, this shows the irrelevancy of self-built PCs in business or at least in edu contexts. (I'm not sure anymore, but I thought I had the same conditions when I've worked for a bigger company buying licences from the same reseller...)
So a PC is more than the sum of its parts. Built together there is also an OS. Creepy!