bloatware

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Messages seem to convey one idea over and over: Dear Adobe, Your bloatware is slow and costs too much.

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  • Many households had a computer like this: the machine that could no longer run the latest trendy bloatware, but which still worked perfectly with its original OS. —  Asimov'sSF,October-November2007
  • A lot of "bloatware," or junk software, is also pre-loaded. —  NotebookReview.com - The Webs Best Source For Laptop Notebook Info
  • But in all fairness I have to say I dislike the bloatware called iTunes, and I've never purchased a single song from iTunes. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • You've all seen new computers that have a bunch of shortcuts to trial versions of all kinds of software applications that you didn't want (sometimes called "bloatware"). —  MSDN Blogs
  • The Lenovo T61p I received (I actually now have two) did not come with any bloatware, and they have been specially configured to only load necessary drivers on startup. —  MSDN Blogs
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