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Re:Android Developers Blog: It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness by gcb on Monday December 20, 2010 @04:39PM (#2025868)
given the lengths microsoft work with hardware manufacturers and computer assemblers such as Dell, being able to install anything and have the drivers working is indeed a breach of microsoft market security :)
Re:Android Developers Blog: It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness by drivebyacct2 on Monday December 20, 2010 @05:35PM (#2026045)
The irony being that Dell laptops made even this year won't accept clean Windows 7 (well, it will, but the Display won't work correctly and the Wifi didn't work until I went and downloaded them from Dell which was a challenge considering I didn't have ethernet. Luckily, my Droid 1 can tether, thanks to a custom rom. What a coincidence.

Of course the Ubuntu live disc worked fine and offered to install a better display and wifi driver for me automatically when I had wifi or an internet connection next.