Windows refund: stymied

[Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique)]

Le 29 Août 2003 09:44, Lennart Sorensen a écrit :
> 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.

I wonder who is responsible/suable for not giving me what I ordered: the 
windows operating system (for this particular machine, at least!).

And what if I want to move to another laptop, do I have to pay twice for the 
OS?

Marc Lijour

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