we are asking the antitrust authorities in Europe to enforce a level playing field, giving customers a free choice and to give competition a fair chance.
Well… let’s see where this goes.
we are asking the antitrust authorities in Europe to enforce a level playing field, giving customers a free choice and to give competition a fair chance.
Well… let’s see where this goes.
By the way, isn’t pre-installing laptops with windows also forcing users? I wonder what the legal difference is of doing so through a proxy as opposed to the office suite situation. Or apple with preinstalled osx?
That’s the wrong I’d most like to right. Especially on the “clone machines” from Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, HP etc. That is the thing that would really create a level playing field, imo.
And it ought to apply to Android too.
I always assumed I pay extra for the OS. The last few times I went laptop shopping there always was an option to buy the Laptop without an OS aswell…
Wow - that’s not been my experience at all. May I ask which country you live in?
I’m from Austria. I used to buy from smaller retailers but I also noticed it when buying from Fujitsu for work
I saw that in France, however every non-tech-savvy person will pay extra to get their Window$ Windows installed (There is also a big chance they only Windows and MacOS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j9j-Ywjmbk
Ok, so the difference is: (1) option to uninstall windows and get refunded (2) macbooks support windows drivers, and it is possible to install and run windows on them (3) osx is free. Is any of that not the case for pre-installed office365?
OSX is not free