I recently picked up a Fujitsu P1610. It came with NOTHING but the drivers and system applications. Each was hidden away nicely. The only one I got rid of was the driver update utility.

This is the first PC I didn’t reformat as a master of first order. Nice!

Keith, you’re absolutely right. And, it’s still no excuse. I remember when I bought one of my first laptops back in ‘96. A Compaq…I was stoked. Then, I got it home and fired it up. You wanna talk about crapware? But, you know, even back then I remember thinking, “this is a major pain in the ass”. I guess some things never change…even with a merger.

Obviously, what boils the blood of what I like to think are more intelligent users, it hasn’t prevented the crappers from making millions. So, hey, more power to ‘em. Meanwhile, I’m lovin’ my Fuji 1610, baby…clean, clean, clean.

Ah, hell, it’s really just a new user experience issue. If they can get away with it and make some extra bank, uh, they will.

They’ll keep putting it on as long as they keep getting paid for it and the people that are annoyed by it know how to take it off. The average consumer probably doesn’t know/care and seems to save everything on the desktop anyway.