Neva

2) Give discounts from OEM licenses to resellers, provided they don't sell or advertise other OS's. http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/arch...

3) 1+2 = profit! And a steady stream of money from virtual goods with which to uphold the monopoly and extend to new areas

Better link to 2): http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/...

And marketing tactics, including ban of advertising both windows & linux and vaporware promises to discourage migration to Mac or linux: http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/boar...

OEM agreements are classified and leakers are punished with license revocation. But still looking for stated proof that they limit or result in blocking of selling other OS's in preinstalled computers.

Possible hit on the OEM pricing stranglehold. The contract itself is still behind authentication.

http://unsanity.org/archives/windows/...

"Furthermore, there is now a requirement that the OEM software must be pre-installed on fully assembled computer systems to get the discount. This means you cannot build a system running Linux or another operating system and get the OEM discount. So much for Linspire possibly taking advantage of this."

Per-system licensing regardless of OS and veiled threats about selling something else than MS OEM software in the majority of machines. Still going on in Vista era.
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/29/e...

@JyrkiKasvi tässä nyt linkit joista mainitsin toukokuisessa keskustelussa

There's a store in Finland to buy computers without Microsoft-tax. The small selection indicates abuse of OEM-discounts to prevent competing operating systems from getting sold to customers alongside computers installed with windows:

http://www.linuxkauppa.fi/tryhma/1

A link on MS drive to reduce number of working computer systems sold without an operating system to "reduce piracy":
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/desktop-o...

Same thing in wikipedia, under Licensing agreements:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticis...

and generally found with the search "microsoft tax"
http://www.linfo.org/microsoft_tax.ht...

Something like this browser choice, but for OS choice on new computers, laptops, netbooks and whatnot:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/pr...

History of embrace, extend and extinguish - an interesting read:
http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalver...

Sales of laptops with Linux pre-installed - need more offices in Finland:

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/09/7-...