we are asking the antitrust authorities in Europe to enforce a level playing field, giving customers a free choice and to give competition a fair chance.
Well… let’s see where this goes.
By the way, isn’t pre-installing laptops with windows also forcing users? I wonder what the legal difference is of doing so through a proxy as opposed to the office suite situation. Or apple with preinstalled osx?
That’s the wrong I’d most like to right. Especially on the “clone machines” from Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, HP etc. That is the thing that would really create a level playing field, imo.
And it ought to apply to Android too.
I always assumed I pay extra for the OS. The last few times I went laptop shopping there always was an option to buy the Laptop without an OS aswell…
Wow - that’s not been my experience at all. May I ask which country you live in?
I’m from Austria. I used to buy from smaller retailers but I also noticed it when buying from Fujitsu for work
