From: Mike '/m' 

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:55:30 -0400, "Frank Haber"
 wrote:

>> how many of your customers decided activation was acceptable?
>
>In XP? Unfortunately nearly all, for new computer purchases.
>
>I don't have the whole say.  Dell has driven other players out of the desktop
>market to almost the same degree that Microsoft has in the opsys market.  At a
>certain point, you couldn't get Win2k (except on servers and the hard-to-find
>and limited "opsys-free" models).  It was just too much
trouble. Workstations
>*may* be worth the trouble, but some workstation programs are starting not to
>support 2000.  Sad, sad.
>
>There is a certain appreciation of the increased value of the 2k machines,
>though.  Most of them still do the job nicely.  And I see no rush to upgrade
>Office.  Rather, I see lots of playing with Open and WordPerfect.


I've been trying to buy a HP notebook with FreeDOS installed instead of
Windows.  The HP site says it is a configuration option, but just try to
buy it.  I'd like to use one of my many spare W2K licenses on the notebook.
 HP has all the needed W2K drivers in the support area of their site.

 /m

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