Dell, eh? A quick search by operating system on their website revealed this:
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/la...~0~1791343&p=1

Hi,

So DOJ is again in the picture?

And none of those netbooks or laptops have any version of Ubuntu below 9.10, which means they must be at least a year old.

AFAIK they always did that.

What do you mean?!

Back on topic, Micr ⃠ s ⃠ft has got to see its end.

AFAIK "Ø" isn't a currency symbol.

It's not that letter at all, it's the universal Prohibition sign -- to indicate that Microsoft should never exist.

I mean Dell always offers older software. Even with Windows 7 out for quite a while, they kept Windows XP as the standard for most their PC's until Microsoft pulled the plug.

And for those who don't have their head burred in the sand it is called more of the exterminate practices MS uses. But hey if it makes you able to sleep at night don't let me burst your bubble.

When you have to sell something below market value to keep your product in the hands of the public it is called desperation. MS wants the entire market, unlike Ma Bell back when that just had the entire market. Microsoft does not want to allow any other OS to get into the public hands and to this end they try to exterminate anything that gets in their way to keep things the way they are. Clear to the point of selling their product at a loss and even saying it is okay that there is so much piracy of Windows in other countries. Like I said before, MS was given their place in the market by IBM.. handed to then on a silver platter. MS never learned how to compete morally with others, they are like a little bully that wants to keep their place so bad that they go around and beat up on everything in site. FOr example, MS never needed Internet Explorer.. they never made a dime off it but since they had the product they had to kill anything else that offered one. So, even though MS never made a dime off IE, they kept Netscape in court till they were bankrupt. Why? It surely was not about the money as like I said.. MS has never made a dime off of IE.

Microsoft is a business...
Honestly, what do you expect a business to want to do?

And Internet Explorer... it's Microsoft's OS. They can do what they want to it. Sure, they didn't need IE, but it's theirs for the taking. Who cares?

One thing people forget is that you can get ubuntu via snail mail absolutely free. Nothing to burn.

Well if it were up to Kenny, Microsoft should just cease to exist .

IE is a browser, not an OS though it is 'technically' part of the OS since it is integrated into Windows. Though in the EU you can get a copy of Windows that doesn't have IE integrated; and you actually have the option to not install it.

Actually, I think that version still uses the IE core for the desktop/file browser...it's just that it doesn't automatically install the web browser frontend components.