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I can't fathom why the fuck MS would force someone to buy hardware with the OS. To me, that encourages the user to say "screw MS, I'll find a goddamn way to steal it, if you are going to make it difficult to buy." Ideas on that one?
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i'm not particularly fond of ms myself, but the way i see it, there is a higher price for the os. they have a discounted price in the event you would like to build a new system with a new os. the clause on the vendor side, newegg.com, loosely states that the customer needs to buy a new system, or new hardware, ie upgrades. so my interpretation of this is, while newegg.com is trying to fulfill the req's set forth by ms, they want to appeal to their customers, thus taking advantage of the loosely stated req's and selling you the cheapest piece of hardware that can possibly be considered a hardware, a power cable.