I have no idea how the dysfunctional wasteland that is the windows consumer ecosystem can survive. Microsoft has actually cleaned up it's act quite well and see

I have no idea how the dysfunctional wasteland that is the windows consumer ecosystem can survive. Microsoft has actually cleaned up it's act quite well and seems to be producing quality software compared to, says, the Win 98 days. But OEMs and their crapware...? I recently used someones new Lenovo notebook and you couldn't get work done for ten minutes without some sort of popup breaking your concentration. Not even the same, possibly important one, repeated over and over. No, there were 15 third-party items in the system tray vying for my attention with updates, warnings, status informations etc. I seriously wonder how people can work for these companies. Not that they're terribly evil (b/c, after all, this rant is pretty much the definition of a First World Problem). But in that I couldn't spend the majority of my waking hours for an organization that has so little taste.