Saturday, November 18, 2006

New advice when buying a new laptop

A new laptop would normally come with a pre-installed version of Window XP, be it Home or Professional edition; unless you are buying a very old laptop. The manufacture (Dell for example) should have paid the license and that amount of money already included in your several hundred pounds payable to them.
I had a pleasant surprise when reading this article, which telling story of a Sheffield man who successfully claimed back his money for not using this Microsoft product. So according to his experience, if you choose not to use Window XP, simply by clicking on Decline in the Term and Condition window; then you are eligible up to £60 of refund. The following steps work with Dell andassumee that user can live without Window and would install Linux/Unix, and may notnecessarilyy work with other manufactures:
1. Turn on the laptop.
2. Read and take the picture of the License/Term agreement window.
3. Click Decline.
4. Install Linux/Unix. Recommend Fedora Core 5 - wicked.
5. Call the manufacture/vendorresellerr and claim your money back. Should ask the PC World people first before paying, even though they might not know what the heck you are talking about.
6. Don't be tempted to install this Window version again.

Beside the good feeling of having an extra £60 for cokes/coffee/chocolate..., it will be a very satisfactory experience for anyone who dislikes Microsoft. If one day everyone turns to prefer Linux, Microsoft will have a significant loss. Or they just rewrite their License/Term agreement ? We'll see about that.

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