[HAL9000]

Your clip only tries to show that Microsoft forced Gateway to always include Windows.

Only? The main point of the testimony is that Microsoft is working to prevent manufacturers from selling computers with no operating system preinstalled on the hard drive.

If a Dell customer wants to buy a computer with an empy, unformatted hard drive - why is it necessary for Microsoft to interfere in that transaction?

[Bush2000]

Only? The main point of the testimony is that Microsoft is working to prevent manufacturers from selling computers with no operating system preinstalled on the hard drive.

BFD. It isn't illegal.

If a Dell customer wants to buy a computer with an empy, unformatted hard drive - why is it necessary for Microsoft to interfere in that transaction?

When was the last time you bought a car without an engine?

[PatrioticAmerican]

"why is it necessary for Microsoft to interfere in that transaction? "

Your assertion that Microsoft "interfered" is incorrect. Microsoft has no authority to command Dell to do anything. In order for your assertion to be correct, Dell would have to be a subordinate entity to Microsoft, and I know a few people at Dell who would call them fighting words.