"Eric" wrote in message
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OEM price discount is a gift from MS to hardware vendors who go through
the trouble of installing the MS OS on their hardware for sale as a
package deal to have systems that users can take out of a box, plug in,
turn on, and start using.

BWAHAHAHAHA! You realy have got MS right up your backside, haven't you! OEM
price discount is NOT a "gift" it was a very effective method of ensuring
that OEMs did NOT sell any machines with either no OS or a non-windows OS!
Why do you think that up until recently it was impossible to buy a machine
from an OEM with no OS on it at all? Surely THAT wouldn't hurt MS, now would
it?