OEM copies of home Premium are what, 100 bucks? Clearly Dell isn't paying anything close to that.
So now you'll save, at most, the price that Dell pays for the OS and then turn around and pay retail for the OEM copy (assuming you can get an OEM copy, since the OEM CAN'T SELL YOU THE OS!).
And now you're going to force people to install Windows (or even harder for the typical end user, Linux) on his/her own?
You do realize that most computer users have NEVER installed an OS.
People on this board are very computer literate. The people that buy computers from Dell, generally, are not.
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