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.

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    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.

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      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…

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        Wow - that’s not been my experience at all. May I ask which country you live in?

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          I’m from Austria. I used to buy from smaller retailers but I also noticed it when buying from Fujitsu for work

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          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)