FYI,
1. Dell from my experience has been getting better about the shovel ware on
their reinstall disks. They are usually on separate set of disks as is a lot
of their custom drivers. One of the reasons I prefer to get my garage clients
to purchase Dell over other brands. Most of the others from what I have seen
like to really dump everything on one disk which is just full of garbage.
2. From what a Microsoft store person told me according to them, well depending
on who you talk to, media is media for Windows 8. License will decide what is
installed, I don't know and did not ask about Office products.
Jon
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:34:52 -0400
> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Re: Win 8 OEM clean install - media, editions,
> activation
> To: [email protected]
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Crawford, Scott <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I'm curious about your Dell OEM CD. I haven't seen one for win8 ...
>
> Dell P/N was H27WW, if that helps any.
>
> > ... but the ones I've seen have had some dell customizations included.
>
> I did actually do a search for OEM customizations. There was
> nothing in the filesystem containing <*dell*> (other than some
> "*ModelLib*" names). In the registry, there were some help/support
> URLs pointing to <http://support.dell.com/>. There were also some
> drivers, but they looked like they could have been "in-box" drivers
> that come with Windows anyway.
>
> I didn't see anything else that was preloaded. Add/Remove Programs
> is empty. Nothing non-Microsoft under any "Program Files". Nothing
> non-Microsoft under "WindowsApps". Nothing non-Microsoft in the Start
> menus/pages.
>
> -- Ben
>
>
