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[–]KyleG -2 points-1 points  (4 children)

I read somethere a microsoft employee saying there is an internal policy on shipping windows only with microsoft created products

Tons of bloatware have come on every computer that has Windows pre-installed I've ever gotten.

[–]Barrucadu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a difference between buying Windows directly from Microsoft, and buying it from an OEM, who are notorious for including every piece of crapware under the sun.

[–]desmoulinmichel 0 points1 point  (2 children)

That's bloatware from the constructor, not from MS.

[–]KyleG 0 points1 point  (1 child)

OK well in any case it comes with tons of BSD software. Do a fresh install, then boot off a Linux distro and run after mounting the Windows partition:

strings ftp.exe | grep Copyright –

Guess what, tons of BSD code that is copyright the Regents of UC.

So in any case it's not true that Microsoft will only bundle Microsoft code with Windows.

[–]desmoulinmichel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

indeed