The HDD with MS O/S on it is all just the supplier and nothing to do with
MS.

This guy is taking two plus two and coming up with eight all the time.

I have purchase about 25-30 HDDs (from a whopping 10 MBytes++) in my life
and never had an O/S installed on one yet.

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"Tim Daneliuk" wrote in message
news There are more choices today than ever. This is directly attributable to
the fact
that the Microsoft-Intel duopoly created a de facto standard onto which
other
systems could be grafted.

If Microsoft is a monopolist, they are a very poor one. Their product comes
with incrementally greater numbers of features, their product price falls
in real terms, and they have very real competitive threats from companies
like Google.

But most of all, it is simply nobody's business what Microsoft does with
their own property. The anti-trust charges were trumped up and entirely
political, concocted by Netscape, Sun, et al because they didn't have a clue
how to compete in the consumer space.

Personally, I have used BSD Unix for many years, but Microsoft has been
*good*
for the industry notwithstanding I am unenthusiastic about their products
....

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On 5/13/2011 7:49 PM, Jack Stein wrote:
Moreover, your PC comes with windows already installed. Go to best buy and
try to buy a PC with Linux installed. In the 90's I bought a PC from Gateway
and was running OS/2 on it. When the hard drive died the first month,
Gateway replaced the hard drive, and I they told me it would come with
windows installed on it. I told them I didn't want windows installed on it,
they said there was no choice. Indeed!