Windows refund: stymied

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 01:31:00AM -0400, Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique) wrote:
> A masterpiece!
> 
> I had the same problem with DELL. But, wait until you try to install vmware 
> and discover that you windowsOEM won't work with the vmware pseudoBIOS!
> DELL CDs are for DELL BIOS...

Same with Gateway.

> It's a shame. And I'm glad to ear that. Next time, I probably won't buy a DELL 
> unless somebody can tell me they changed this ludicrous policy.

I imagine microsoft doesn't want Dell's diskimage installable Windows
version to work on other machines.  imagine if it fell into the wrong
hands.

Lennart Sorensen
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