Re: OEM Pricing?
What exactly is the problem with installing your own OS anyway?
Presumably buyers of computers have some basic enough skills that they can insert a disk/usb and click on 'Install'.
If hardware manufacturers want to bundle Windows, they could easily offer it as a voucher or a physical copy that comes in the packaging (as you get with printers, webcams and other hardware peripherals).
These days I go out of my way to purchase hardware that comes with no OS, but I don't think it should be so difficult and I think competition needs to be encouraged.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
