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wodmarach: It could be however the first shot in an attempt to let MS put back in the rule about including discs with machines if they can get it done without another antitrust hearing it's kinda a win on both sides (we get back our discs MS gets their branded discs back out there) but some will scream it's them forcing the discs on purchasers yadda yadda yadda
I'd imagine that MS legal took that into account before filing the suit. They're not going to take action like this if it costs them millions on discs in the future.

Plus, anything that encourages people to stop buying pre-built systems from shoddy (read: large) companies or just building their own... it's all to the good.
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Navagon: I'd imagine that MS legal took that into account before filing the suit. They're not going to take action like this if it costs them millions on discs in the future.

Plus, anything that encourages people to stop buying pre-built systems from shoddy (read: large) companies or just building their own... it's all to the good.
The OEM's print their own discs though so it wouldn't cost MS more sure they'd probably have to drop their per license cost a little though by $10 per 1k for example...
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wodmarach: The OEM's print their own discs though so it wouldn't cost MS more sure they'd probably have to drop their per license cost a little though by $10 per 1k for example...
Well, yeah, in that case...

But to my mind this goes back to Microsoft. Comet saw an opportunity to make a fast buck, but they wouldn't have had that window of opportunity if it wasn't for MS leaving it wide open.
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Navagon: But to my mind this goes back to Microsoft. Comet saw an opportunity to make a fast buck, but they wouldn't have had that window of opportunity if it wasn't for MS leaving it wide open.
Part of the reason the requirement was dropped was OEM pressure the other was the antitrust case settlement...
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wpegg: Come on, fifteen quid? That costs them all of my sympathy. Perhaps as a gesture of customer support for free it would be ok, but not as a blatant profiteering act.
Who said anything about sympathy? I'm saying they're both in the wrong.
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wodmarach: Part of the reason the requirement was dropped was OEM pressure the other was the antitrust case settlement...
Antitrust affected this too? Well, like I said, it's just another reason to avoid pre-built systems.
Post edited January 04, 2012 by Navagon
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Navagon: Antitrust affected this too? Well, like I said, it's just another reason to avoid pre-built systems.
The antitrust case screwed up quite a few consumer advantages prepackaged discs were part of it. and lets be fair the antitrust case did absolutely nothing to the OS world, the EU forcing the browser selection screen has changed things more than the whole antitrust thing did.
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azrael-: Especially if we're really talking about tailor-made recovery discs, because they're usually tied to a quite specific hardware configuration. Also, "real" recovery discs have the nasty habit of wiping the PC's HDD clean in the "recovery" process.
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wodmarach: These seem to have been mass produced (factory pressing not burnt at the time of sale) which kinda makes me think they weren't tailored for the actual machine they were sold with...
You can still have tailor-made discs and mass-produce them, if the systems they're intended for are produced in a sufficient quantity. Recovery discs for e.g. HP systems would most probably not work with e.g. Dell systems, and you might even require different recovery discs for different HP systems, due to different pre-installed software or differing hardware.

If the recovery disc is actually just a copy of a Windows install disc it's a different matter altogether, but still, as long as you don't have a valid and genuine product key such a disc is mostly useless.
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wodmarach: The antitrust case screwed up quite a few consumer advantages prepackaged discs were part of it. and lets be fair the antitrust case did absolutely nothing to the OS world, the EU forcing the browser selection screen has changed things more than the whole antitrust thing did.
Oh, I thought that was a part of the antitrust case. I don't know it it's fair to say it achieved nothing. We don't know how far MS would have gone in terms of crushing the opposition of they weren't brought down a few pegs. We simply won't know.