Microsoft today announced that it has won a key distribution deal with HP, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, to install a Live Search-enabled toolbar on all HP consumer PCs planned to ship in the United States and Canada, beginning in January 2009. As part of this deal, the default search engine setting in the browser on all HP consumer PCs will also be set to Microsoft Live Search.Microsoft is building a custom, Live Search-enabled toolbar for HP customers that takes advantage of the exceptional user experience capabilities of Microsoft Silverlight. The toolbar will provide HP with customization capabilities within the buttons on the toolbar, providing quick and easy access to a variety of online services and tools, such as Snapfish by HP, the company’s online photo service, and HP customer support.
Microsoft's search engine, the third most popular, will replace Yahoo! Inc.'s as the default on Hewlett-Packard machines.
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They can keep their toolbars and craplets, of which I desire none and be confident in the knowledge that all of these OEM's are wasting their time by even bothering to image their hard disks in the first place because they will not even be booted.
Not me. Oh, wait, it's easy to uninstall, add all the junk you want now!
Not me. Oh, wait, it's easy to uninstall, add all the junk you want now!
That's no change to the current system. At least this will be useful, and not some crappy trial like "30 Days of MS Office 2007" etc
I disagree. I find it useless, and annoying.
I disagree. I find it useless, and annoying.
True, me too, but we know how to use a computer
Microsoft, Yahoo and Google all have toolbar deals with different distributers
is that why do Browser Add-Ons have to be Toolbars?
At this rate, if every major company offers Toolbars,
then my browsing screen will be so tiny.
is that why do Browser Add-Ons have to be Toolbars?
At this rate, if every major company offers Toolbars,
then my browsing screen will be so tiny.
http://video.linux-noob.com/screenshots/ie7/ie7mess1.jpg
The problem is less about this specific software, and more about the practice in general. It's not just the toolbar, it's all the other things that bloat those OEM PC's.
Yes, which doesn't make it less of a problem though.
I agree, in fact every time I face a new Dell with the Google stuff, I uninstall Google Toolbar and Google Desktop. I then send Google a scathing email explaining why I hate their software when they ask me why I uninstalled them.
The stupid thing was so damned slow when I got it. I used it for about 5 minutes, said "Screw this", reinstalled a clean copy of Vista, and It runs beautifully.
The stupid thing was so damned slow when I got it. I used it for about 5 minutes, said "Screw this", reinstalled a clean copy of Vista, and It runs beautifully.
Exactly what I had to do when I bought my dv6710ea a few months ago.
The only part of PC buying I don't like.
The only part of PC buying I don't like.
does it really take a whole day to wipe a harddrive and install windows? Unless your copy of Vista Ultimate came on floppy disks...(!)
The only part of PC buying I don't like.
does it really take a whole day to wipe a harddrive and install windows? Unless your copy of Vista Ultimate came on floppy disks...(!
Nope. It takes maybe half an hour from popping in the DVD to a working desktop.
At least toolbars are not that crappy as those game shortcuts or internet provider offers or trial versions of anti virus software.
A true internet browser experience!!
oh yeah. I seen ton of toolbars on some user computers. I have to uninstall them all. so there IE would load faster.
I hate all those toolbars, like someone else said, they're so useless since browsers have the search thing already built-in.
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