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Microsoft anti-bloatware service to apply to Windows 8 PCs, too
$99 'Signature Upgrade,' done in company's retail stores, scrubs junk from machines
By Gregg Keizer
May 16, 2012 03:26 PM ET
Computerworld - A Microsoft in-store program that scrubs "bloatware" from Windows PCs will also be offered when Windows 8 machines reach the market later this year, a company representative said Wednesday.
The service, which is offered only in Microsoft's small chain of retail stores -- it now has 21 operating or in the works -- is dubbed "Signature Upgrade," and costs $99.
"We take off all the bloatware on the PC," said a Microsoft store employee Wednesday when asked about the service.
On Microsoft's website, the company described the Signature Upgrade this way: "We'll install everything you need and remove the things you don't, for a faster, more efficient, and secure PC experience."
A Signature Upgrade requires the Windows PC to be left at the store for 24 to 48 hours.
Signature Upgrade is an offshoot of the Signature line of Windows PCs that Microsoft sells in its retail outlets and online. Those hand-picked notebooks and desktops are optimized for performance, says the Redmond, Wash. company, with "no trialware and sample software that typically bogs down new PCs."
Read more at: http://www.computerw...ndows_8_PCs_too
$99 'Signature Upgrade,' done in company's retail stores, scrubs junk from machines
By Gregg Keizer
May 16, 2012 03:26 PM ET
Computerworld - A Microsoft in-store program that scrubs "bloatware" from Windows PCs will also be offered when Windows 8 machines reach the market later this year, a company representative said Wednesday.
The service, which is offered only in Microsoft's small chain of retail stores -- it now has 21 operating or in the works -- is dubbed "Signature Upgrade," and costs $99.
"We take off all the bloatware on the PC," said a Microsoft store employee Wednesday when asked about the service.
On Microsoft's website, the company described the Signature Upgrade this way: "We'll install everything you need and remove the things you don't, for a faster, more efficient, and secure PC experience."
A Signature Upgrade requires the Windows PC to be left at the store for 24 to 48 hours.
Signature Upgrade is an offshoot of the Signature line of Windows PCs that Microsoft sells in its retail outlets and online. Those hand-picked notebooks and desktops are optimized for performance, says the Redmond, Wash. company, with "no trialware and sample software that typically bogs down new PCs."
Read more at: http://www.computerw...ndows_8_PCs_too
