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Huh? I'm not sure where you're getting the conspiracy thing from. It's no conspiracy, it's just stupid. The "follow the money chain" part of the article is completely factual and straight forward. It's not like he's alleging that MS wants the crapware on machines. Quite the opposite, MS tried this at one point, but parts of the DOJ anti-trust ruling prevent them from controlling what OEMs do with their OS installs.

If you can't see the ridiculousness of the scenario, then I'm not sure what to tell you. OEMs install all this crap to the detriment of their customers, who then have to go back to the company who originally sold the OEM the operating system, just to get a decent experience. If that's not ridiculous, then I don't know what is.



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