Re:Blatant Example of Microsoft Monopoly (Score 2, Informative)

Wrong!!! Its simple - Dells contract with Mircosoft is set so that Dell pays by the number machines made not the number of copies of WinXP installed. So when you get the Machine that comes with FreeDOS you still get the privlidge of paying for XP - so to keep profits up Dell must charge extra for the computer that comes with FreeDOS. This is a sweet deal for both Microsoft and Dell - Dell gets to cut the price of XP machines and Microsoft gets to lock in lots and lots of computers to XP at shipment. The only person taking it in the pants is some end users and nobody is talking to them.