> No. I imagine they can afford to buy half a zillion completely identical 
> machines, and have a full time staff who's only purpose is to set up a 
> standard machine image and test that it works right, and they then copy 
> that onto every new, identical, machine they buy.

Of course that will only work if you copy the drive images to identical 
hardware, but I have never ever seen a company where every employee has the 
same hardware, not even close.  The needs are usually just so different, 
plus people get upgraded at different times, there is always a good mix of 
hardware.  Sure, a huge company might have drive images for all the popular 
hardware they have, but they always have another method.

By the way, you do realise that the Windows OS install is highly 
configurable?  You can make it silent, add extra drivers, remove components, 
add settings, add service packs and patches etc, add the corporate license 
key etc, you can basically make it however you want and then burn it to make 
your own custom installation disc.  That would then just install the OS 
exactly the way you want on any hardware without requiring you to watch over 
it.

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