Bill Jonas wrote:
>
> But for 95? For about a year, until six months ago, I was working as a
> PC technician at a computer retailer (damned economy). Customers of
> ours who needed the OS reloaded and didn't have the recovery CDs
> couldn't get them for computers that came with Windows 98, let alone 95.
> (I'm not sure if it was all manufacturers or just certain ones.) I
> specifically remember calling one of the manufacturers (might've been
> HP) and being told that they could no longer sell anyone the recovery CD
> because their contracts with Microsoft forbade them to do so.
Probably due to the settlement between MS and Sun regarding the Windows
VM vs JVM whereby MS agreed to stop infringing (and distributing) to the
detriment of Sun.
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