Subj : Re: computers
To   : Malvinas
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Sat May 03 2025 23:54:00

-=> Malvinas wrote to Mhansel739 <=-

 Ma> On this last piece of your post: MS didn't "establish itself"... they
 Ma> did some kind of shady move with IBM to have their OS pre-installed in
 Ma> OEM computers for a good few years, until it was irreversible. I know
 Ma> american folks (coming from "the land of opportunity and the free and
 Ma> brave), see these 'corporate moves' as not so much as "shady", but you
 Ma> gotta give that that's not quite "squeaky clean"...

Remember bloatware? You'd buy that $300 Packard Bell or HP machine,
and it woud be preinstalled with a TON of stuff that you had to
delete to get system space and processing back. I found out that
the companies PAID to have their stuff installed, and that's how
they could sell the PC's so cheaply.



.... Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive?!?!
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