Windows refund

European examples of refund of the "microsoft tax" (I.e. when it is impossible for you to order a specific type of computer without getting MS Windows with in the package)

Italy 2007 (Brand: HP): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/HP-muss-italienischem-PC-Kaeufer-Kaufpreis-fuer-Microsoft-Software-rueckerstatten-190053.html

Germany 2007 (Brand: Lenovo): http://macslow.net/?p=148

In Denmark some of the cheapest computers (lowest specifications), also laptops, can be bought without Windows (with Linux instead). If you want high resolution displays, fast CPU and/or GPU og more robust models, it gets very hard to find hardware that is sold without Windows!

There are probably many more examples that I do not know of. Perhaps also newer.

There are general description at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_refund .

The danish text, that I was presented, when buying a Lenovo SL500 is in this photo: