If you boot your shiny new machine with a Linux distro disk - any distribution - and immediately cfdisk or fdisk your worthless windows OS from the drive, and install Linux, you can get the cost refund of the windows OS from the manufacturer.
To be eligible for the refund, you have to have never used the OS, which means it cannot have been booted up after you owned it.
I've heard that XP doesn't require rebooting after changing the IP information. What a concept....
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