to remove an operating system from a computer (excuse me the hyperactive exclaimation marks, i’m astounded beyond belief that even microsoft can imply this) and on the other hand (which i suspect is borne out by microsoft’s own end user license agreements) you’re not allowed to even give away a microsoft operating system with a computer.

before i implode here’s some things that are not quite completely different. dr morris agaba takes unused pcs to ugandan schools and jeff tomlinson does something similar in ghana (and it seems that at least tomlinson’s organisation techknowledgy are shipping used pcs with win95 on them).