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On 25/06/2015 15:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:09:03 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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>> I would seek a refund for the MSWindows OS that it comes preinstalled |
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>> with. (This is a blatant case of software bundling with their products |
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>> and the refusal to cough up a refund when requested remains |
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>> incompatible with European Directive 2005/29/EC. Court test cases in |
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>> France and Belgium have validated this and big boys like Dell are now |
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>> more cautious when confronted by informed consumers assertively |
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>> requesting refunds.) |
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> The XPS 13 at least is available as a "Developer Edition" that comes with |
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> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS instead of Windows. |
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If you or the crowd you work for can legitimately qualify as a business |
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customer, you experience a whole different world to the plebs who buy |
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thrugh the consume site. |
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Suddenly all the options you could not have before become available, |
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like swapping out hardware for something different. It's actually not a |
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problem for Dell to do this as so many of their products are highly |
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customized and they use that fancy JIT manufacturing process-thingy. |
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I've never found removing Windows from the order to be a problem; ask, |
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and of course they can accomodate my specific needs..... But, sales of |
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1000+ laptops a year nd a dedicated sales person just for us might have |
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had something to do with that :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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