Topic: Evading the Microsoft tax

[sam]

The netbook market has changed a lot since its beginnings and nowadays it’s very hard to find a netbook without Windows, this one was no exception as it had the Microsoft tax on its price and that ghastly Windows license sticker on its underside. I hoped to get back the cost of the license, mostly for ethical reasons, and I hoped that Amazon.co.uk would do the right thing as described here, but a few weeks ago I picked up some random report on Slashdot about Amazon now refusing to cooperate in honoring Microsoft’s EULA, which made me worry a bit.

http://teom.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/evading-the-microsoft-tax/

[Rik]

Now, if only you could get Amazon to replace it with a Macbook for the same money.

[Simon]