Is Best Buy About To Ditch Optimization To Sell Crapware?
Found on The Consumerist on Saturday, 09 January 2010
Best Buy is apparently dropping some of its "optimization" services, and will instead provide the "Best Buy Software Installer," a new tool that the company says will "radically simplify how you set up and customize your new PC or upgrade an existing one."
The document also states that, because these computers will have less trialware installed by manufacturers, and Windows 7 actually works, selling optimization is suddenly much harder.
Long gone are the good old times when you bought a PC and got a real installation media. Not a rescue disk. A medium for a complete installation of the operating system. No trialware, adware, spyware, shareware or whatever third party crap included that needed to be "optimized" away. Only the plain system.