For the first time in 10 years, I just ordered a Windows 8.1 laptop (I live in a small town, I want to start teaching some free classes at our library, and thought I better also have a Windows laptop).
Someone commented on Amazon that he had to spend 2 hours removing crap-ware from the model I ordered and said he wished he would have bought directly from Microsoft. I looked, and Microsoft sells the same laptops with "signature" branding: this means that they sell you a crap-ware free system. So, I stopped the Amazon order and for the same money bought from Microsoft. I intend to only install Java 8, IntelliJ, git, ssh, and probably Pharo Smalltalk when I receive my new laptop.
A little off topic, but a few weeks ago I wiped my MacBook Air clean by reformatting the disk, did a fresh install, and just installed what I need for writing and development work. Now my MacBook Air runs faster and I recovered a lot of disk space.
Someone commented on Amazon that he had to spend 2 hours removing crap-ware from the model I ordered and said he wished he would have bought directly from Microsoft. I looked, and Microsoft sells the same laptops with "signature" branding: this means that they sell you a crap-ware free system. So, I stopped the Amazon order and for the same money bought from Microsoft. I intend to only install Java 8, IntelliJ, git, ssh, and probably Pharo Smalltalk when I receive my new laptop.
A little off topic, but a few weeks ago I wiped my MacBook Air clean by reformatting the disk, did a fresh install, and just installed what I need for writing and development work. Now my MacBook Air runs faster and I recovered a lot of disk space.