I doubt it'll effect the price that much. I bet the shear volume of licenses Dell buy makes bundling Windows quite cheap in comparison to buying a single OEM copy.
It wouldn't surprise me if this move is also a short lived one. Once Dell get a few thousand people ringing up saying "I can't install Office, where is Internet Explorer and all the games I have won't install either" they'll soon get fed up.
I hope I'm proved wrong. Not that I'm a huge Linux fan but I'd love to see where Linux goes should it become much more common on newly bought PC's.
It wouldn't surprise me if this move is also a short lived one. Once Dell get a few thousand people ringing up saying "I can't install Office, where is Internet Explorer and all the games I have won't install either" they'll soon get fed up.
I hope I'm proved wrong. Not that I'm a huge Linux fan but I'd love to see where Linux goes should it become much more common on newly bought PC's.