[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...so that when Vista is broke a user will say "My Dell is broke" and "Dell screwed up Vista" instead of "Vista is broke."

Which could have the end effect of pushing Dell to pre-install Linux on their machines...or nothing at all... and tell MS to go stuff it.

Not that's there's anything wrong with that.

[contemplator]

If pre-installing Linux was a profitable model for home PC's you can be sure that someone would be doing it.