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Actually, they have a pretty strict policy of not including shovelware, to the point that the Microsoft Stores will, for a small fee, remove all the shovelware
by benaiah 14y ago
Actually, they have a pretty strict policy of not including shovelware, to the point that the Microsoft Stores will, for a small fee, remove all the shovelware from a computer that they didn't even sell.
- eclipxe 14y agoNothing for Microsoft to be proud of there.
- achompas 14y agoThe strictest policy would prevent licensees from pre-loading shovelware onto new PCs to begin with. But that's an argument for another time.
- scholia 14y agoMicrosoft CANNOT prevent licensees from loading any old crap they like. The US Justice Department sued Microsoft to establish this fact, and put a judge in oversight for the next decade. The DoJ also prevented Microsoft from doing deals with the top 10 Windows OEMs, and compelled it to supply them all at the same price. This prevented Microsoft from doing any deals that would be unfavourable to any OEMs who chose to provide slow, badly-installed, crapware-filled systems. Obviously this was a tremendous benefit to the American public, and to the rest of the world, which doesn't have a choice or a voice when the DoJ makes the rules.
- ConceptJunkie 14y agoThere's nothing wrong with the idea in principle, it's just that OEMs have a bad habit of putting on too much stuff, and putting on stuff that nobody would want (or should have). It's just all those installers (yes, I'm talking to you Adobe and Oracle) that do everything they can to trick you into installing "toolbars" and other crap.
- ConceptJunkie 14y agoWell, good for them. That's one customer-friendly decision out of, what, about eight million?