What is described below has already happened with some notebooks.
Usually they still leave a "rescue disk" which brings everything in its
original state (and reformat the hard drive !).
If they remove that, what will they do if the user's hard drive go to hell ??
However, they still have to give a way to install new devices and I found that burning
a CD with what is under c:\window\options leads to a reinstallable
win98 distrib (even if the "setup" program is still customized by the OEM).
For what it is worth ...
Philippe
Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ed Foster reported several weeks ago in InfoWorld that MS is
> not permitting vendors who bundle Windows 98 to ship the
> OS CD-ROM with the computer. (So be warned!) Not only that,
> it has not made any big public announcement, so a lot of
> people are going to be rudely surprised, when some new
> installation says, "Place Windows disk in CD drive!"
>
> I quote from Ed Foster's column in InfoWorld for June 5th:
>
> "...a number of readers believed Microsoft's real intent is
> to discourage customers from trying alternative operating systems.
>
> "[One reader wrote]'The lack of a CD-ROM will clearly serve as
> a disincentive to anyone wishing to experiment with Linux.'"
>
> "An IT manager at a large manufacturer says that's exactly what
> Microsoft officials told him. 'I spoke to some of my contacts
> there, and found out that the medialess format is primarily designed
> to be a firewall against competitors like Linux,' he wrote, explaining
> it will make it harder to have a back-out strategy in place if an
> experimental Linux deployment gets in trouble. [...] 'To discourage
> corporations and consumers from changing, they are no longer
> distributing CDs with every machine, in hopes that the fear of
> change without any practical possibility of return will discourage
> most users from even looking at other systems.'"
>
> Now even as the judge has determined already, MS certainly
> does not play fair! Neither with competitors nor customers!
>
> You can follow the complete thread in InfoWorld on the web
> at www.infoworld.com. Ed Foster's column is called "The
> Gripe Line." The thread started about 3 weeks ago.
>
>
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