On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 15:40, Sundar wrote: > I thought you can buy Dell without M$. Two years back, I ordered one dual > processor server configuration with no software. For WinNT, they said that > they would charge $250. > ----- servers there is no dispute On the desktop machines, it would appear (I checked only briefly) that there isn't any way to get them to sell without Windows. As for the royalty paid to Microsoft on all machines regardless of whether there was Microsoft Windows OS on it or not, I believe that pricing incentive program was discontinued as part of the remedy for the anti-trust decision. Craig