Nuke Redmond!

[Dave Wade]

Must be the USA PC World. In the UK they would have tried to sell you an extended warranty as well which is really just an insurance policy....
.. but the question is why PC World. Don't US universities have student discount stores?

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of John Many Jars
> via cctalk
> Sent: 07 October 2019 09:31
> To: Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: Re: Nuke Redmond!
> 
> Ha. I was recently in PC World (gross) buying my son a laptop for University.
> 
> They tried to sell him (me) a whole load of crap he didn't need.  They tried to
> sell me an Office 365 subscription that he gets for free from the Uni.  They
> tried to sell me A/V software you can get free.  They tried to sell me 1TB of
> cloud storage he doesn't need.  They tried to sell me Windows 10 restore
> media, for FORTY POUNDS.
> 
> Amazing.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 04:24, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> > A fellow who was putting the air in "Microsoft Tire" (c) is going to
> > prison.  Microsoft claims that the air they give free with the tire is
> > not free.  You can download the air and install the air and use the
> > air, but noone can help you do it or they will spend 15months in
> > federal prison and pay 3/4 of a million beans in damages for helping
> > you and charging nothing for it but a quarter for the electricity it
> > cost to put the air in.
> >
> >
> > https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-microsoft-copyrig
> > ht-20180426-
> story.html?fbclid=IwAR3v6MDIUWtqyUxcupT7YQOaX5a7bzrKZKAZWK
> > QFYkdzbg9xvWhvRVkSuq4
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> 
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