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Dell ships bogus copy of WIN2k
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be...@natlauto.com
Mar 31, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/31/00
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Dell has taken it upon them selves to customize the original Windows 2000 os
from microsoft and shipping there version on a Dell CD. This copy will only
load on a Dell machine. I am not sure how they did it but I know there are
several cab files that are customized and cannot be read. Looks like dell
has decided that selling a version of Win2000 is just as good as the
original. I wanted to load NT 4.0 on the new machines and load 2000 on few
other older machines for testing but since the others are not dell I cannot
load. I hope this gets out to enough people that it will stop this "Big
brother" type practice.
ROb.
from microsoft and shipping there version on a Dell CD. This copy will only
load on a Dell machine. I am not sure how they did it but I know there are
several cab files that are customized and cannot be read. Looks like dell
has decided that selling a version of Win2000 is just as good as the
original. I wanted to load NT 4.0 on the new machines and load 2000 on few
other older machines for testing but since the others are not dell I cannot
load. I hope this gets out to enough people that it will stop this "Big
brother" type practice.
ROb.
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