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by tripletao 2976 days ago
> So Recylers get thousands of systems annually that are perfectly serviceable, fully licensed with windows but they can not use that license because there is no restore CD and they have no way to obtain one. Thus MS does them a "favor" buy selling them a new license for $25 instead of just providing a way for them to restore the system

Then why don't the recyclers just get one restore CD and make copies? They could save almost $25/system....