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March 24, 2008

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Sony gives the “no bloatware” plan a Fresh Start

Posted Mar. 24, ’08, 11:00 AM PT by Aayush Arya
Category | Apple » Rivals

Sony VAIO bloatware reduxRemember how Sony wanted to charge you $50 for removing all the pre-installed crapware on your brand new VAIO notebook? It turns out that no one really liked that idea and while Sony did manage to get a lot of attention from the press on the announcement of this decision, it wasn’t exactly of the healthy sort.

Unbelievable, right?

So they are not going to do that anymore. No, man—they don’t mind admitting it when they make a mistake and always care for their customers. Except when they don’t.

Though Sony has struck the $50 fee off their “how to annoy potential customers” list, they’ve retained the requirement of having you “upgrade” to the Business version of Windows Vista (which is supposed to be full of dreamy locales and candy-laden trees) and that will still cost you an extra $100.

Here’s a message to Sony: Though that’s not exactly one step forward, two steps back, we still don’t see where you’re headed with this one—either you load ‘em with junk or you don’t, no strings attached. I guess that’s too simple a concept for you to wrap your head around.


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