They likely have diagnostic and test software that runs on Windows, in which case it would be a royal pain to load Windows to verify the system works, then remove it for sale (at less money).
Right, Alan. Is this the way it works? I only have a sample of one, but when my Micron PC came, it went through the whole install routine from scratch when it was powered up the first time. The install files were preloaded to the point that it could bring itself up, instead of shuffling floppies and CDs, but the machine sure didn't boot into NT. Had it been tested, followed by a reformat/reinstall? Somehow, I doubt it, and it wouldn't matter if the disk got erased in the end anyway.
I imagine this may be a new innovation, to preserve the integrity and uniformity of the Windows experience. By insisting on this procedure, Microsoft insures that it owns the startup screen. Thus, their sacred intellectual property is respected, and slicing and dicing and fragmenting and fracturing is prevented.
Not that there's any particular point in arguing, pin you guys down on one thing, and it's off to another little debating point. Nobody seems to want to take me up on the doubling of Win95 pricing for OEMs, while "Microsoft software prices are falling". Nobody seems to want to take on the old "giving the customers what they want" with that crummy old retail Win95 flying off the store shelfs either. Funny, that.
Cheers, Dan. |
