MS Will Remove OEM 'Crapware' For $99

Posted by Unknown on Saturday May 19, 2012 @08:59AM from the i-thought-that-was-called-ubuntu dept.

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."

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Re:We do it at our store for $65 plus tax. by EdIII · 2012-05-19 13:29 · Score: 5, Interesting

1/10th?
My jaw dropped when I saw Dell pushing a 700+ MB printer driver. You have to look for it but you can find a 6MB driver only install instead.
How on earth you need 700MB for a printer driver and software is beyond me..