[Reeka]

I have an illegal copy of Windows 98 on my desktop computer. Why? Because the computer was a used one that I bought from work for $300.00. I bought it with the operating system installed via their site license. There was some other software included as well: Microsoft Word, etc. Well, for some inexplicable reason windows screwed up and it would no longer work. I had no option but to reformat the hard drive----losing the Windows. I called user support at my work at the time and explained what happened and asked to borrow the cd's to reinstall windows to my computer. They said that they could not do that. So, a friend in England burned me a cd of windows 98 so that I could have an operating computer. I was not about to pay for an operating system for a computer that I bought with the understanding that the disk operating software was on it. It wasn't technically right but then the way my work would not let me reinstall windows legally wasn't right either.

To my knowledge all my other software is legal on the free trial deals. With my lap top. Dell sends almost all the software that has been pre-installed on cd.