Presumably (or perhaps) they are paid to put the trial versions there. MS-Office might be an exception since it's so dominant (though the trial version of 2007 might get a user to request an upgrade from 2003) but with things like anti-virus, there's a lot of competition and a subscription model, so getting someone to try a new program would be worth paying for.
-- Andrew mailto:[email protected] Saturday, April 3, 2010, 3:30:28 PM, you wrote: > Do you (or anybody else here) happen to know what comes on a Win7 Thinkpad, > in addition to Win7? > ie, is there a doc up on the Lenovo site that checklists how it differs from > a clean install? It seems rather screwy that something as fundamental as > this is always so obfuscated, why can't "clean Win7" be a preload option? > Now THAT would be useful on a restore partition. > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "STeve Andre'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 2:20 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: "Scott Matthews" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Question about getting a new Thinkpad... >> On Saturday 03 April 2010 08:51:26 Scott Matthews wrote: >>> In the past, whenever I purchased a new PC I would always wipe it and >>> perform a clean install -- as the manufacturers would always preload >>> various undesirable apps and other useless stuff. >>> >>> Am I correct to assume that a new Thinkpad (Win 7) will similarly come >>> with >>> this sort of stuff? >>> >>> If so, is there a "best" way to purchase a Thinkpad, presumably with Win >>> 7, >>> and then perform a clean install? >>> >>> Thanks kindly, -Scott >> >> Everyone installs trash on their systems these days, it seems. If you run >> to >> the patch site and add stuff, then delete the crud you don't want, I don't >> see >> a need to scrub the system. You'll have to do that soon enough after >> you >> get infected. ;-) >> >> The restore partition will reinstall all the crud, so perhaps a checklist >> of >> things that want to be removed is a good idea. I hadn't thought of that. >> >> In some cases it seems to be possible to buy a thinkpad with just dos on >> it, at some savings. You could then get a copy of W7 and install that, >> but >> that costs more and I don't think its worth it--at least I've not seen a >> compelling reason for that. >> >> --STeve Andre' > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
