Microsoft to charge customers $99 to remove OEM 'crapware'

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Will people be willing to pay Microsoft to remove the crapware that the OEMs install on new PCs? Microsoft thinks they will.

For around two and a half years, Microsoft has been offering what it calls Signature editions of certain PCs. According to Microsoft, these PCs give you faster and easier access to “the applications you want right away without getting sidetracked talking to trialware or other sample software”.

In other words, when you boot up your new PC, instead of having to deal with a blizzard of pop-ups and dialog boxes related to trialware and demo software — collectively known as crapware — the system boots to a clean Windows desktop.

See the complete story at Microsoft to charge customers $99 to remove OEM 'crapware' | ZDNet

PC Decrapifier is free. :)

 

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Windows 8 PCs to get anti-bloatware deal from Microsoft Store

The Microsoft Store retail locations have been offering what it calls its "Signature" offer when it sells PCs from other companies. This feature, which has been available for a while now, is designed to eliminate much of the "bloatware" that gets installed on some of the desktops and laptops sold by the bigger PC companies.

Now Computerworld.com is reporting that Microsoft Store locations plan to continue to give the "Signature" treatment to Windows 8 PCs when that OS is released sometime later this year.

All Microsoft Store locations sell Windows PCs from companies such as Dell, HP, Acer, Samsung and Toshiba. The stores pledge to strip down the amount of trial programs and other pre-installed software that is normally offered on PCs. Usually, those programs end up never being used by the owner of the PC and can slow down its performance.

http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-pcs-to-get-anti-bloatware-deal-from-microsoft-store

 

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Windows 8: Microsoft tries to rein in crapware

[h=2]Bloatware may still creep onto your new PC, even though Microsoft is reportedly getting ready to take on Windows 8 bloat.[/h] Windows 8 may be the most significant reimagining of Microsoft's OS in more than 15 years, but it still won't change one eternal rule of Microsoft-powered PCs: wherever Windows goes, bloatware follows. Microsoft and its users have long complained to hardware makers about the amount of extra software that manufacturers include with Windows PCs such as extra media-playing software or trial versions of antivirus programs.

http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/277551/windows-8-microsoft-tries-rein-crapware

 

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Windows 8 PCs to get anti-bloatware deal from Microsoft Store

The Microsoft Store retail locations have been offering what it calls its "Signature" offer when it sells PCs from other companies. This feature, which has been available for a while now, is designed to eliminate much of the "bloatware" that gets installed on some of the desktops and laptops sold by the bigger PC companies.

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