Actually in the Japanese OEM market (and remember, many PC manufacturers are Japanese), extra bundled software is huge - customers demand as much bundled softwa

Actually in the Japanese OEM market (and remember, many PC manufacturers are Japanese), extra bundled software is huge - customers demand as much bundled software as possible, and a machine without it wouldn't sell. You should see all the crap that's installed on a Japanese laptop, it makes the American ones look completely spartan. I personally think it's bizarre, the machines are unusably slow, I pave mine as soon as I get them