EU law does not disallow a computer being sold with preinstalled software, according to a European Court of Justice ruling in Case C-310/15 issued on 7 September.
This answer was given to a preliminary ruling question from the French appeals court following a dispute between Vincent Deroo-Blanquart and the Sony company. Deroo-Blanquart complained that he had been forced to buy a laptop equipped with pre-installed software (Microsoft Windows Vista operating system and various...