As long as you do not use the installed Windows O/S, then you should be able to get a refund.
All stated in the MS EULA.
http://vista.blorge.com/2009/07/24/amazon-customer-gets-hassle-free-refund-for-unwanted-windows/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_refund
Some time in 2011, Microsoft slyly re-worded the EULA to try and bar that option of a refund. Closely study the latest EULA and it has been subtly changed. No matter. Whatever the Microsoft lawyers have scribbled to the contrary in the margins remains irrelevant. The bundling of Windows with new PCs, and the refusal to cough up a refund when requested, remains incompatible with European Directive 2005/29/EC.
The best way to deal with Microsoft is to drag it hissing and screaming before a European Court of Law. It's time the Courts made a European-wide judgment to settle this pathetic state of affairs. Bundling unwanted software with a new PC is a practice that impedes the European free market. The practice violates the consumers' best interest, and runs counter to the intentions of the European Parliament which voted for 2005/29/EC.
Better still would be for the European Commission to really flex its anti-monopoly and anti-racketeering powers. It's time to break up Microsoft, and where better to start than in Europe.
This could be a spectacular re-dux of the
Bell System divestiture. In 1984, AT&T, the incumbent US telco, was broken into seven smaller companies known as the
Baby Bells, to curb the telco's abusive monopolistic behaviour. In comparison to AT&T, Microsoft racketeering behaviour today is several orders of magnitude worse.
Incidentally, Channel 4 News reported that Billy Gates made an "impromptu" visit to a multi-ethnic school in Sarf London. It was nothing of the sort. It was a heavily pre-arranged photo-op that allowed Gates to strut the media stage like the prize peacock that he is.
The hapless kids in the school were like rabbits caught in the headlight. While the British TV public was thoroughly spattered in prime-time Corporate Propaganda from the ghastly Head of the Redmond Hydra. True to form, Baron Billy wasted no time before explaining to the world (once again) what an awesome guy he truly is. And how he's going to wipe out global starvation, find a cure for AIDS and cancer, eradicate malaria and then colonise the moon. *yawn*
It all begs the question: what was Gates' real reason for soiling our pleasant land with his stinking carcass?
Which rogues in Whitehall, the City and Westminster were behind this trip? Who were the "very important people" cosying up to the slithery git while he poked his snout into British affairs? What was the nature of the meetings Gates had with "The Establishment"? Who arranged them? How and where were they conducted? Where are the minutes of all of those meetings?
I smell the Filthy Lucre from whopping Government IT Contracts, signed and sealed in secret between H.M.G. and William Henry "Bill" Gates III.
cheers, a