Microsoft: You Already Have Naked PCs!
Blog Comment I see the problem is that most consumers, especially in the home market, do not realize they have other options. To complicate that, they have probably never used anything besides Microsoft OS going back to DOS 1.25.
[September 28, 2007, 22:46]
Microsoft: You Already Have Naked PCs!
Blog Comment If you have bought Windows OEM or otherwise, you should be able to re-install it on a new computer, as a vitrual machine on the same or a new computer, provided you only use it on one machine at a time.
[September 25, 2007, 15:42]
Microsoft: You Already Have Naked PCs!
Blog Microsoft has responded to our request for comment after a "free-market" EU thinktank, the Globalisation Institute, recommended that all PCs in Europe should be sold without a preinstalled operating system (see the story here and our leader...
[September 25, 2007, 10:54]
Microsoft: You Already Have Naked PCs!
Blog Comment Having worked in tech support in the past I'd hate to be supporting a company that sold naked PCs to the average consumer - the amount of hassle from customers not able to or botching an OS install would be a nightmare.
[September 28, 2007, 10:21]
Users Split Over Naked PCs
News Jeremy Wickins, a researcher from Sheffield, wrote: "Sure, I'd like to see a bit more support for Linux flavours (at least the major ones) and anything that irritates Microsoft is just fine by me, but it seems that this idea [selling computers as...
[October 1, 2007, 17:42]
Production Line Diversions Could Only Cheapen The Price Of A 'naked Pc'
Talkback This article sites 'production line diversions' as being a main reason manufacturers wouldn't want to sell a 'naked pc'. I built my last 2 PCs myself and I'll tell you that if I didn't bother to install the OS, I would have been done a lot quicker...
[March 17, 2007, 3:50]
Microsoft: Don't Sell PCs Without Operating Systems
News We want to urge all system builders — indeed, all Partners — not to supply naked PCs. Supplying base systems, or 'naked PCs', is a missed opportunity, according to Michala Alexander, Microsoft's head of anti-piracy.
[April 5, 2006, 11:45]
Microsoft: Don't Sell PCs Without Operating Systems
Talkback Microsoft's strategy is to combat the use of counterfeit and unlicensed versions of Microsoft's software and telling vendors not to sell Naked Another interesting Quote "There will be a concern if we see an increase in businesses selling PCs...
[April 6, 2006, 5:53]
Naked PCs
Talkback If I have bought a DVD and I want to put it on a media server for my own home, I should be able to, DRM doesn't work and never will, it's simple you can always read bits of a media and all encryption is crackable given time.distributed computing...
[October 2, 2007, 12:32]
Microsoft: Don't Sell PCs Without Operating Systems
Talkback I always buy "naked" systems because I only use linux.maybe the Vendors should have it pointed out that by listening to Microsoft they will lose business, the business they would have gotten by offering the "naked" systems.
[April 6, 2006, 17:48]
Alienware
Talkback I therefore want to buy a naked system to save myself paying for Vista twice. I'm currently looking to buy a laptop/notebook and have seen a great deal on the Alienware website. I enquired if it would be cheaper to have an older version of windows...
[March 20, 2007, 11:44]
Microsoft: Don't Sell PCs Without Operating Systems
Talkback Personally, I will *always* prefer to buy a naked PC. The only difference between a naked PC and PC preinstalled with a zero-cost OS is a few seconds with root access and the fdisk command anyway! Techy, you have it backwards.
[April 6, 2006, 14:00]
And Of Couse The Eu Is Going To..
Talkback The consumers will be confused when the first thing they are asked when they dial for help is "Which operating system do you have" "erm, geekware 3.75693428761 which was the cheapest one I could find" Followed by "Ah yes there is no driver for...
[September 25, 2007, 13:19]
Sysbug Trojan Jumps On Sexual Bandwagon
News So far, Sophos has received numerous reports of companies blocking the message at their email gateway, but little evidence so far of PCs being compromised. Security firm Sophos said on Tuesday that a great many copies of the message have been...
[November 25, 2003, 16:05]
Sold Without An Operating System
Talkback I don't need, or want, someone telling me I have to run their software on MY computer. AMEN! It's about time someone decided the consumer has the right to use his own intelligence to buy a computer. If you buy a computer with windoze on it, it...
[September 24, 2007, 14:32]
