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Way back in '05, Warner Crocker coined the phrase Crapware... saying:

"Crapware, Spamware, Spyware, Adware, It's All A Weed To Me ... My grandfather used to always say, "A weed is anything that is growing where you don't want it to." [End Quote]
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Walt Mossberg picks up on this concept in his recent column "Using Even New PCs Is Ruined by a Tangle Of Trial Programs, Ads"

He says:
> When you buy a gleaming, new personal computer, the first thing you want to do is to try out its cool new features and make it your own.
> But as I rediscovered recently, often what you're forced to do instead is to spend hours as a digital maintenance man wading through annoying and confusing chores. [End Quote]

Kind of makes you say hmmmmmmm. I've struggled with the exact same woes -- I'm sure you have too -- but remember I use Macs, and probably the only thing I've got to complain about is today's software for Mac is over the top and has become either bloatware or poorly developed. Apple programmers need to learn that it's really not about cute sounds and eye-candy. It also has to work.

Mossberg puts it into perspective:

> I am not singling out Sony here. I would have had a similar experience if I had chosen, say, a Hewlett-Packard laptop. Most major PC makers feature the security programs and trial software and offers I encountered on my new Sony. They are not part of Vista itself. The problem is a lack of respect for the consumer. The manufacturers don't act as if the computer belongs to you. [End Quote]

I seriously had to chuckle when I read the full column -- hearing the tails of lots and lots of problems and just plain stupid software.

You'll enjoy it...

Read: "Using Even New PCs Is Ruined by a Tangle Of Trial Programs, Ads"

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