Posts tagged Crapware
Microsoft Retail Store PCs Will Be Crapware-Free, But I’m Still Unsatisfied [Microsoft Stores]
Oct 29th
No one likes uninstalling bloatware, trialware, and craplets from their freshly unboxed PCs. Microsoft finally acknowledges this by skipping the unnecessary third-party software in Microsoft retail store PCs. That’s truly great, but they should do a little more than that.
I realize that the key reason behind all that preinstalled junk is to make a profit. After all, there are people who’ll spring for subscriptions because of anti-virus nagware or purchase a full version of an application after playing around with the trial. For most of us though, we just plain take a mocking from Mac users as we hit the uninstall button over and over again. Read the rest of this entry »