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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JC Jaros who wrote (47258)	6/25/2000 11:09:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

JC - it's really pretty simple, and if the OEM told you that their MS contract was in the way, they were handing you a load of BS to keep from paying. MS provides an incentive to OEMs who ship SOME OS - not necessarily Windows - on every box. It's an anti-piracy thing. There is nothing in the contracts which keeps the OEM from refunding your money. As far as the courts are concerned, this has already been researched in depth both by the FTC and the DOJ. There is nothing illegal or even unusual in MSFT's OEM contracts, at least since the 1995 consent decree...