Evading the Microsoft tax

“The netbook market has changed a lot since its beginnings and
nowadays it’s very hard to find a netbook without Windows, this one
was no exception as it had the Microsoft tax on its price and that
ghastly Windows license sticker on its underside. I hoped to get
back the cost of the license, mostly for ethical reasons, and I
hoped that Amazon.co.uk would do the right thing as described here,
but a few weeks ago I picked up some random report on Slashdot
about Amazon now refusing to cooperate in honoring Microsoft’s
EULA, which made me worry a bit.”

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