----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Ruset" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 12:10 PM Subject: Re: [H] Geeksquad/Bestbuy rip off?
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Technically the Windows XP OEM Preinstallaton Kit does not in itself turn computers into billboards or load them with bloatware. It is the computer manufacturers following the instructions included with the kit that does the evil deed. You can read all about it in the instructions. Microsoft highly encourages OEM's to install their logos, their ISP software and any other software they choose to install, using the kit. It is like handing a criminal an unloaded gun and instructing him how to use the bullets he furnishes to kill people. Microsoft knows the OEM's are chomping at the bits for assistance in gooking up OEM installations of Windows as it seems well over 90% do just that.
For those who still doubt, answer this question. Why do many (if not the majority) of power users who buy name brand computers format them and do clean installs, immediately after they receive the computers? I bet most any performance benchmark would show lots higher performance after this has been done than before.
Chuck
