Wow. Heise thinks it's newsworthy that Dell is now doing what Apple has already been doing for almost 5 years - not including floppy drives in PCs.
Meanwhile, at our company (totally PC-infected), it's already been very difficult for several years to find blank floppy disks when you actually discover that you need some. The floppy drives were probably only installed as a dust collection surface...
At heise online news there's the original article.