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Has Crapware Gone Too Far?

New PCs from certain vendors have always included at least some bundled software that is of dubious value to the purchaser, but after spending over an hour cleaning “crapware” from my grandmother’s new Acer PC, I wonder if at least one vendor has finally gone too far.
Whenever I visit, my grandmother always takes some time [...]

Briefly This Week

Here are some of the issues I’m following this week:

A company named Psystar made headlines yesterday by offering to sell low-cost computers that are pre-loaded with the retail version of Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard,” the next-generation operating system that Apple includes on new Macs and sells at retail as an upgrade for other Macs.  The problem [...]