Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before

Re:Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface... by criddell on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:42AM (#13159393)

The OS puts Candy Crush in your menu and it's installed on demand. So to users it will seem like it's always been installed.

All the pre-installed software is my big pet peeve for Windows 10. I don't want weather, or contacts, or xbox, or 3d builder, or email, or alarms, or skype, or office, or calendar, or groove, or money, or news, etc... I've deleted them and they just come back because of some provisioning setting.

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Re:Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface... by mark_l_watson on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:31PM (#13159881)

Buy a signature edition laptop directly from the microsoft store, then you will not et any crap-ware.

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Re:Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface... by criddell on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:35PM (#13159916)

Things like Candy Crush, Skype, and Office aren't the full installs but instead are stubs that install the applications on first run. Even if you buy a retail copy of Windows 10, that junk is still in there.

A signature edition makes sure that the only crapware is stuff that Microsoft installed.

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Re:Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface... by lmm on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:48PM (#13160023)

This isn't true. You get Candy Crush. That's the whole problem.

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Re:Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface... by mark_l_watson on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:41AM (#13166336)

OK, then Microsoft changed what gets installed. A year ago when I bought a signature laptop, no junk was pre-installed, IIRC

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