OEM Software

[N!ck]

Money is the reason.

Big software companies such as Norton pay the manufacturers to put their crap on their computers by default in the hope of getting paying customers. It is generally quite successful too.

It keeps the price of these computers down too. If you price up a custom build of an OEM PC you'll find the OEM costs similar or maybe even slightly cheaper because of this.

[Jordy]

Doesn't a lot of the stuff installed like the wifi manager and sound managers affect drivers? I'm always reluctant to get rid of the software because of this. I also wouldn't be surprised if there's software out there to get rid of it for you easily.

Sony are particularly bad for this despite marketing Vaio as something of a premium product there is something in the region of 20-30 program's installed.

[triston220]

Doesn't a lot of the stuff installed like the wifi manager and sound managers affect drivers? I'm always reluctant to get rid of the software because of this. I also wouldn't be surprised if there's software out there to get rid of it for you easily.

Sony are particularly bad for this despite marketing Vaio as something of a premium product there is something in the region of 20-30 program's installed.

Some of it will probably be drivers, the rest of it is likely to be rubbish you won't use very often.

[Recursion]

Doesn't a lot of the stuff installed like the wifi manager and sound managers affect drivers? I'm always reluctant to get rid of the software because of this. I also wouldn't be surprised if there's software out there to get rid of it for you easily.

Sony are particularly bad for this despite marketing Vaio as something of a premium product there is something in the region of 20-30 program's installed.

I've found most of the software for audio/wifi etc can be removed, Windows is good enough at managing them so long as the drivers are installed.

[Stephen!]

The first thing I do when I get a new laptop is wipe the OS straight away and install my own.