Microsoft Watching OEM Bloatware for Windows 7
Microsoft’s keeping an eye on the amount of bloat that OEMs will be loading into Windows 7.
We all love to build our own PCs and besides the cost savings, we like the feeling of having a virgin install of an operating system rather than one that’s been “customized” with bloatware. We’ve seen it all before on our laptops, when Windows starts up and the system tray fills with things we never wanted in the first place.
If Microsoft (along with the rest of us) have its way with Windows 7, useless and slow startup programs will be kept at bay from pre-installs.
“We're all about putting the stopwatch on how quickly a customer gets to a usable experience,” said Mark Croft, the director of Microsoft’s OEM worldwide marketing, in a TechRadar story. “With OEM pre-installed software what you'll see is a little bit of streamlining going on in the initial experience for the customer.”
While speed and responsiveness should always near the top of every operating system’s development goals, Microsoft is more sensitive than ever to how quick Windows 7 will feel.
After Windows Vista earned the reputation for being slower than Windows XP, largely due to increased security and other forward-looking features, many became frustrated with their overall computing experience. Users just saw Windows Vista as downgrade to XP rather than an upgrade.
Microsoft now is putting efforts into making Windows 7 much faster, working with OEMs to reduce bloat, and even smaller things such as improving the response of the Start Menu button.
It's VERY MUCH microsoft's place.
OEMs loading overly slow bloatware onto a PC with Windows 7 means that unexperienced users, likely most of the market, are going to have bad experiences with Windows. Again.
You never get it free. You pay it in terms of speed and experience.
It's VERY MUCH microsoft's place.
OEMs loading overly slow bloatware onto a PC with Windows 7 means that unexperienced users, likely most of the market, are going to have bad experiences with Windows. Again.
many i know of. Usually because of bloatware. Just recently got to test out an XPS system. Fresh from Dell. Vista took nearly 5 minutes to load. the user thought it was broken when he got it,
Fresh install of vista later. the machine was quite fast and the user very very happy.
brand new computer takes 5 minutes to start up and the user is bombarded with dozens of different prompts, retarded, get rid of that useless sh!t
In my humble opinion some stuff that was on the last "bloat ware free" system i bought is evil like for instance Internet security software that takes half of my resources when idle or the many system tray items that come with drivers.
One obvious example would be the world of warcraft trial icon that ATI dumps on your desktop unless you specify you want to do an expert installation and deselect the installation.
Why i need to get a popup from some lame app telling me i unplugged my headset (warps me to desktop to shop me the pop) is still unclear.
And if you think there are plenty audio drivers without those uber panels think again.
The list with crapware that thinks its important enough to start up at boot or worse a service and sometimes even a gaurdian service for that service is endless.
In my case I have installed about 90 programs total on my XP machine in the course of 3 years, it works slower, yes, but I also use all possible tools to make XP faster, like
-DISABLE automatic defrag! Unlike many suggestions, Defrag generally scatters small files across the disk instead of keeping all small files belonging to a directory written together on one part of the disk.
And keep defrag for a time when the disk starts to get full (say after 6 months), and you just backed up all data, and deleted all unnecessary data.
-Disable themes!! (something I'd no longer be able to do on 7 I fear).
-Disable automatic tasks, and background activity!
-Disable adobe/msoffice accelerators. I only use Ms office and adobe once a week.
-get rid of nearly 80% of the startup programs
So far, it looks like Windows 7 boots fine, but that will depend greatly on the amount of programs installed.
I dare to bet 7 will be below the user experience of XP as soon as more programs are installed!