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It depends on Microsoft's reason for preventing OEMs from selling OS-less systems. It Microsoft is doing it to drive out competition, it may be illegal.

Considering that there's nothing preventing Dell or Gateway or anybody else from installing whatever OS they want, the issue of illegality is a dead issue. It isn't even a subject of settlement in the antitrust case.

Now that Microsoft requires authorization codes for Windows installation, it may be difficult for them to prove that OS piracy is a sufficient reason for the restriction.

As you (hopefully) know, no copy protection is foolproof. Hackers posted hacked copies of Windows XP before it was even released. So your argument doesn't hold a lot of water. Saying MS should do less to uphold its copyright is ridiculous.

Sorry I wasn't able to respond to your earlier messages on this thread. I was helping a Windows user move files to his new iMac. He seems very happy with the improvement.

That's quite alright. If he's anything like the morons in the Apple commercials, it's probably better that he have a dumbed-down experience with an iMac.

I'm going to purchase another iMac today too. Price reductions are rumored for this morning.

I'd buy one, too. But I'm straight. ;-p

That's quite alright. If he's anything like the morons in the Apple commercials, it's probably better that he have a dumbed-down experience with an iMac.

No, he's a professional. He probably earns more in two or three years than you will in your lifetime. He just doesn't want to waste any more time with Microsoft's low quality crap.