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MS Will Remove OEM 'Crapware' For $99
walterbyrd writes about a program from Microsoft to clean up bloated base installs, for a price. From the article: "Microsoft even offers up numbers to show how detrimental this OEM-installed crapware is to your system. Microsoft claims that Signature systems start up 39 percent faster, go into sleep mode 23 percent faster, and resume from sleep a whopping 51 percent faster compared to their crapware-ladened counterparts. (A 'Signature' system is one without crapware). But now, Microsoft will offer customers the opportunity to give their Windows 7 PC the Signature treatment by bringing it to a Microsoft Store and paying $99, according to the Wall Street Journal."
Then you won't have a Windows OS. Is it worth $99 to have your OS removed? I dunno. But inquiring minds want to know!
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
I tell everyone "leave me alone, what do I look like, a tech support volunteer?"
This space available.
I looked through that site. Didn't see anything useful there, just a bunch of linux distributions.
I guess their new motto is "We kick the crap outta crapware!"
GM announced that all new cars would be sold with holes in the tires and a low fuel mileage ECM program until you purchase GM select service.
Silence is a state of mime.
Which is just what I expected you to do, try to qualify it by excluding those people who didn't listen to you.
If they had, well, then they'd be enlightened and thank you. If they don't, obviously it's their fault.
Typical. Anybody that doesn't swoon over it, they're the ones with the problem.
And yes, as the other person said below, your advocacy is your own worst enemy.
I tell everyone to simply install Ubuntu...
Is that how you freed up your Saturday nights to catch various sci-fi marathons?
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
PFFFT! I'm much more cooler than all of you windows/linux/mac fanbois!
I have no operating system on my computer! only idiots would install that bloated mess.. I have no bloat! I stare at my bios screen and it RAWKS!
black screen or bios screen... it's all ya need