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Bloatware Removal Threatens PC Industry Profits
Anti-Globalism sends along a piece on how a consumer-friendly service is not so good for PC manufacturers. "Before they ship PCs to retailers like Best Buy, computer makers load them up with lots of free software. For $30, Best Buy will get rid of it for you. That simple cleanup service is threatening the precarious economics of the personal computer industry. Software companies pay hundreds of millions of dollars to PC makers like Hewlett-Packard to install their photo tools, financial programs, and other products, usually with some tie-in to a paid service or upgrade. With margins growing thinner than most laptops, this critical revenue can make the difference between profit and loss for the computer makers, industry analysts say."
The phrase 'Adapt or die' applies to corporations, too.
Actually, it's "Adapt or get legislation passed protecting your business model", but thank you for playing.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
I would much rather fly in a toilet stall. They are private, rarely have screaming babies, no one reclines their toilet into your stall, and some even have private screens for watching adverts(better than most movies they show).
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I'm not going to take advice from someone who doesn't know that "douche nugget" is two words, you illiterate douche nugget.
Thank God for evolution.
Air France is a "no go" on my list. Rude behavior [...]
What part of Air France don't you understand?
(No offense intended, it was just too easy...)
Thankfully, Linux comes pretty free of bloatware.
Oh, cool, you mean they stopped shipping emacs??
(hahah, I kid, I kid)
Wouldn't that be a compliment 'round these parts?
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
I conditionally accept your call of shenanigans on my shenanigans on his shenanigans as it was unclear whether we were restricted to the almost impossible task of a clean windows install, however I must retain my call of shenanigans on his shenanigans for that more narrow case. I also reserve the right to reinstate my full call of shenanigans on his shenanigans in the future, if such a time comes to pass that React OS manages to finish their open source reimplementation of windows XP, allowing one to compile a windows compatible operating system from scratch.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
My mom was the sysadmin for the world's second installation of a Xerox Star system (the first commercial WIMP desktop). She can do her own BSD upgrades.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?