You're going to lose your connection anyways no matter what technology you use when the power goes out since PC will be down, along with your router/modem/etc...
Excellent re-analogy (is that a word?). Kudos to your post. That is exactly what Microsoft has done and we all know it. This should end this thread once and for all... pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!
We all know the MS tax is a bunch of monopolistic B.S. PC's should in fact be allowed to be sold with any OS or none at all. Plus, a buyer may already own a legit copy of an OS. Dell is just making sure that they hit every market segment of PC users - from corporations to the gamer to the some OS pirateer in China. I know a LOT of gamers and PC enthusiasts who bought the $274 Dell server deal off coupon sites such as gotapex just because they are stable and great machines. And it takes no time to get up and running. In the past, 'real' PC enthusiasts would build their own machines and not waste time with companies such as Dell. It's a smart biz move by Dell even if it only saves us a couple bucks after the MS tax. I'd rather use the savings for a beer.
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You're going to lose your connection anyways no matter what technology you use when the power goes out since PC will be down, along with your router/modem/etc...
Excellent re-analogy (is that a word?). Kudos to your post. That is exactly what Microsoft has done and we all know it. This should end this thread once and for all... pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!
We all know the MS tax is a bunch of monopolistic B.S. PC's should in fact be allowed to be sold with any OS or none at all. Plus, a buyer may already own a legit copy of an OS. Dell is just making sure that they hit every market segment of PC users - from corporations to the gamer to the some OS pirateer in China. I know a LOT of gamers and PC enthusiasts who bought the $274 Dell server deal off coupon sites such as gotapex just because they are stable and great machines. And it takes no time to get up and running. In the past, 'real' PC enthusiasts would build their own machines and not waste time with companies such as Dell. It's a smart biz move by Dell even if it only saves us a couple bucks after the MS tax. I'd rather use the savings for a beer.
Could be a brilliant Dell ploy to sell more systems to pirateers of Windows OS's since they'll save a bit with a free OS.