http://www.metafilter.com/tags/oem Posts tagged with 'oem' at MetaFilter. Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:18:40 -0800 Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:18:40 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/9779/ In the midst of being indignant over the death of the BeOS, <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1115/byt20010824s0001/" title='"He Who Controls the Bootloader"'>Scot Hacker talks about Microsoft's OEM license with hardware vendors</a>. Although Microsoft claims the terms of the agreement are a "trade secret," preventing it from making appearnce in the DOJ circus, apparently it prevents OEMs from installing <i>any</i> non-Microsoft OS along side a Microsoft OS... If true, the "browser integration" thing's just a minor annoyance - <i>this</i> would be monopolistic and anti-competitive... <font size="-1">via <a href="http://www.rc3.org">rc3.org</a></font> tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.9779 Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:18:40 -0800 computers licenses microsoft monopoly oem technology m.polo http://www.metafilter.com/2042/ <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/deleteframe.pl?story=/articles/op/xml/00/05/01/000501opfoster.xml">Microsoft fires the final bullet into it's head.</a> As of April 1st, OEMs may no longer ship a CD-ROM containing a full-installable copy of Windows with the machines they build. They can ship a "recovery CD", or just a "recovery partition". So, what did you get for your $90? <br><br> You got to rent Windows until you upgraded your machine. tag:metafilter.com,2000:site.2042 Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:34:39 -0800 cd cdrom microsoft oem windows baylink