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So while we're contrasting Apple and Microsoft, here's the first bit of copy on the Signature page: "New PCs may come filled with lots of trialware and sample
by spiralganglion 15y ago
So while we're contrasting Apple and Microsoft, here's the first bit of copy on the Signature page:
"New PCs may come filled with lots of trialware and sample software that slows your computer down and makes it a pain to clean out all that stuff, just to get your new PC up and running, so we do that for you!"
Not only is that a hilarious contrast of the typical Mac/Windows out-of-the-box experience — right from the horse's mouth — but it's also quite poor writing. Whereas, Apple seems to have consistently excellent writing throughout their websites and products.
- m0nastic 15y agoYeah, I think the model around which Microsoft licenses Windows was designed to be "hands-off" (Anti-trust/non-competitive issues aside), and now they're reaping the results of that. I'm not going to second-guess Microsoft that it wasn't the right way to do things (their sales over the past twenty years would seem to indicate that it's worked out just fine for them), but it does leave us in an odd predicament; where basically the incentives between Microsoft, the PC vendors, and the customers are not aligned. I don't know what Microsoft should (or would be allowed to based on anti-trust) do about that situation.