Let's not rewrite history here, OEMs shipped a ton of preinstalled bloatware. If you got an image of XP from Microsoft, it was totally clean. Contrary to today

Let's not rewrite history here, OEMs shipped a ton of preinstalled bloatware. If you got an image of XP from Microsoft, it was totally clean. Contrary to today when Microsoft bundles bloatware directly with the OS itself. You can't install a clean copy because a clean copy just doesn't exist.