Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart! Sorry, but long !

2004-04-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 20:57, Owain Sutton wrote: > Another perspective - doesn't Microsoft *already* EFFECTIVELY give away > its desktop environment? The vast majority of new shipments of Windows > are OEM installs. Microsoft charges peanuts for these (compared to a > retail copy), and as far

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart! Sorry, but long !

2004-04-18 Thread Owain Sutton
Another perspective - doesn't Microsoft *already* EFFECTIVELY give away its desktop environment? The vast majority of new shipments of Windows are OEM installs. Microsoft charges peanuts for these (compared to a retail copy), and as far as the end user can see, they're getting the OS for free