> A typical OEM windows system will have a half-dozen pieces of crap in its system tray written by third-party hardware vendors, implementing features that a de

> A typical OEM windows system will have a half-dozen pieces of crap in its system tray written by third-party hardware vendors, implementing features that a decent operating system would already have built in. Actually, my OEM Windows laptop came with a half dozen pieces of crap in systray implementing features that Windows already has. A battery monitor, volume icon, WiFi applet, shit like that. So it's not only Microsoft to blame but also the all-pervasive fu&*( "differentiation", like you just have to crap the system with something others don't have to make TV ads and PowerPoint presentations about it. Also, just few days ago we had a great example of how "competently" Microsoft plugged the former functionality hole which was antivirus software so it's not like they are perfect or something.