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Microsoft will clean your 'crapware' for $99
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article published on 16 May, 2012
Microsoft will now begin cleaning away all your pre-loaded PC bloatware for $99.
As most new pre-built PC owners know, the bloat/crapware is installed by the hardware makers and paid by the vendors (usually). Examples of the bloatware include subscriptions to anti-virus software, e-reading alternatives, Adobe products, "tuning" software, vendor specific help links, and Best Buy junk like ... [ read the full article ]
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16. May 2012 @ 15:17 |
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Alternatively, just backup all your important files and install a vanilla version of Windows.
Seriously.
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16. May 2012 @ 15:29 |
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Originally posted by ROMaster2:
Alternatively, just backup all your important files and install a vanilla version of Windows.
Seriously.
No shit!
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Ryberg360
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16. May 2012 @ 16:01 |
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What is so hard about uninstalling them yourself for free?
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16. May 2012 @ 16:20 |
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Almost every old person who can't do this has a kid who can do this for free... Or at least you should know someone who can do it.
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bbbob
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16. May 2012 @ 16:44 |
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Decrapifier will do this for free and much easier than one at a time.
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16. May 2012 @ 17:28 |
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Scam-backs-Micro$oft: This service should be free. They are the one that put it there in the first place!
This is like the Phone-books long time ago: If you do not want your name listed and show, you have to pay-for and now on days, If you want your name to show, you have to pay-for WTF!
Live Free or Die.
The rule above all the rules is: Survive !
Capitalism: Funnel most of the $$$ to the already rich.
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16. May 2012 @ 19:08 |
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Originally posted by ROMaster2:
Alternatively, just backup all your important files and install a vanilla version of Windows.
Seriously.
Except that 90 percent of people with PCs don't know how to do this.
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DirkMaste
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16. May 2012 @ 21:37 |
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How is this any different from commercial skipping. All those programs paid HP/Dell/whoever to be there, and Microsoft is just deleting them? How much of that $99 are they sharing with Mcafee/Adobe/etc? If those programs being there is what keeps the PC so cheap (which is what the manufacturers say), then how can Microsoft just delete them? This looks just the same as commercial skipping and ad-blocking to me.
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dEwMe
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17. May 2012 @ 14:21 |
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Originally posted by DirkMaste:
How is this any different from commercial skipping. All those programs paid HP/Dell/whoever to be there, and Microsoft is just deleting them? How much of that $99 are they sharing with Mcafee/Adobe/etc? If those programs being there is what keeps the PC so cheap (which is what the manufacturers say), then how can Microsoft just delete them? This looks just the same as commercial skipping and ad-blocking to me.
Dirkmaster
WELL SAID!!! I can imagine the OEMs will not be happy with this at all. I don't like bloatware but I sure appreciate the PC being cheaper. I hate to see it get to the point we have to jailbreak our pcs too...lol
Just my $0.02,
dEwMe
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DirkMaste
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17. May 2012 @ 14:58 |
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Originally posted by dEwMe:
Originally posted by DirkMaste:
How is this any different from commercial skipping. All those programs paid HP/Dell/whoever to be there, and Microsoft is just deleting them? How much of that $99 are they sharing with Mcafee/Adobe/etc? If those programs being there is what keeps the PC so cheap (which is what the manufacturers say), then how can Microsoft just delete them? This looks just the same as commercial skipping and ad-blocking to me.
Dirkmaster
WELL SAID!!! I can imagine the OEMs will not be happy with this at all. I don't like bloatware but I sure appreciate the PC being cheaper. I hate to see it get to the point we have to jailbreak our pcs too...lol
And let me say, before anyone suspects I'm a troll, that I think that Decrapifier is an AWESOME piece of software. My comments are more a reflection of the sorry state of copyright/patents/owner's rights in the present environment.
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statomike
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17. May 2012 @ 21:12 |
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That's the same deal and price that Best Buy and Circuit City used to do. MS is just jumping into the business now.
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Mez
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25. May 2012 @ 09:49 |
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I love it!
M$ has always seen their users as morons. I just remember their desktop clean up that never removes any M$ product. It will probably do the same, remove all products that were not made by M$. Anyone stupid enough to pay M$ $99 to do something they should do themselves deserves to be screwed.
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JST1946
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25. May 2012 @ 10:36 |
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That's the first thing I do when I get a new PC.Get rid of all their free trial crap that is only good for 60 days.
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