Microsoft Signature: PCs Without Crapware, Just Like Macs

Microsoft has voiced the Signature , a operation of PCs that advance without any crapware, and "carefully [tuned] to help accomplish limit performance."

Mac users: end me here if this sounds familiar.

According to "industry experts" (actually, only a expert: Paul Thurrot), 95 percent of users surveyed elite these slimmed down PCs over the magisterial with junk. "Virtually all participants favourite that the trialware was private and transposed with a washed desktop and easy-to-use Start menu" says the blurb.

So far, so obvious. Of march you loathe mess and admire faster computers. But doesn't it appear similar to Microsoft is banishment its hardware allies up in to the air similar to clay pigeons, and mercilessly gunning them down? Here are a couple of samples from the promo site. For the "media lover":

A Personal Computer with Microsoft Signature has reduction program running in the background, permitting your Personal Computer to concentration on running uniformly or developing video files. Also, reduction trialware and representation program means more storage space for critical things

For "the gamer":

You do not wish your processors active conversing to a trialware offer whilst you're perplexing to keep Sergeant Major alive during an epic firefight, do you?

And for "the active mom":

Your Personal Computer with Microsoft Signature means it's ready to use correct out of the box

Ouch. Take that Sony, Dell, Asus and every other Personal Computer producer out there. But there's more. Being Microsoft, there couldn't only be a Signature range. Nope. You can moreover select the $100 Signature Premium. This adds LoJack burglary tracking, together with a couple of other things that Mac users might find familiar.

Premium gives you a year of technical support, a event of in-store practice (lord knows that store this will be in. I hope it's not Best Buy) and "priority access" to practice events. Apple users can suffer all of these only by on foot in to an Apple Store.

Various models of notebooks and "slates" are available, and I consternation only how sufficient Microsoft had to pay the manufacturers to nix the bloatware.

Microsoft evidently deserves a thumbs up for cleaning the crap off its machines, but it comes over a small similar to a philandering spouse who wants his wife to pay him not to dupe anymore.

Signature [Microsoft]