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| Thread ID: 124759 | 2012-05-17 21:39:00 | M$ Charging $99 To Remove OEM Crapware | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1275930 | 2012-05-17 21:39:00 | So, the OEMs make money from installing crapware onto PCs, and now Microsoft is making money removing it. Makes you realize why more and more people are buying Apple hardware. Will people be willing to pay Microsoft to remove the crapware that the OEMs install on new PCs? Microsoft thinks they will. For around two and a half years, Microsoft has been offering what it calls Signature editions of certain PCs. According to Microsoft, these PCs give you faster and easier access to “the applications you want right away without getting sidetracked talking to trialware or other sample software”. They figgered out how to charge for leaving things out. Too bad this doesn't work for McDonald's::: "I'll take a $4.00 Big Mac but leave out the pickles, ketchup and hold the onions." "Yes Sir, that'll be $29.95 at the window. Please drive forward and sign over your first-born child". LINK::: www.zdnet.com |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1275931 | 2012-05-17 21:43:00 | Meh, I know how to format my machines... | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1275932 | 2012-05-17 21:55:00 | ^^ SOME don't and just live on in ignorance. And nagware and gar-bage! | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1275933 | 2012-05-17 23:00:00 | Those who know me take their machines to me where I clean them out for free. Those I don't know I don't care about ;) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1275934 | 2012-05-18 02:00:00 | HP have said with the newer computers, there wont be any crapware on them | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1275935 | 2012-05-18 02:27:00 | But to have this $99 problem you need to have purchased a laptop or a toaster shop "brand" thing in the first place. Nothing I ever built had any crapware, apart from the bloat built in to Windows itself. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1275936 | 2012-05-18 02:31:00 | HP have said with the newer computers, there wont be any crapware on them I believe you Speedy One --- but HP is so full of itself that it loads more crap onto their systems than anyone else I've seen - and it's tough to extricate from the installation unless one burns it all down and goes back to a bare-naked installation. Rots-o-ruck with that - since HP never sends a clean install, just a recovery disk that re-implants it all over again! AND --- HP's M$ Certification number on the case is NOT the real license number. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1275937 | 2012-05-18 02:37:00 | HP have said with the newer computers, there wont be any crapware on them I think they said they wont put OTHER companies trial software on them. And just some (not all) will be supposedly crapware free. I'll believe it when I see it , sigh. The problem is what they consider NOT to be crapware (eg Norton ??) Also , HP Tosh etc put one sh8tload of their own branded crapware on them (notebooks are the worst), that will probly stay. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1275938 | 2012-05-18 02:42:00 | No they said they'll be entirely free of crapware (pcworld.co.nz). Altho Nortons may still get installed (not trials tho). But, yup I would class that as crapware :p Some of the later models (not all). Good thing is, I'll never know. Since I dont buy ready made systems. Whether its Acer, HP, or Dell |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1275939 | 2012-05-18 02:45:00 | I love ya, Speedy! I DO! But - I gotta reserve judgement until I see the whites of their eyes. (Gads! I hope there aren't any Brits here tonight!) |
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