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Is this the beginning of the end for bloatware? We can only hope so. We have been outspoken critics of bloatware for years and companies like Dell went to great lengths to remove unwanted software from its line of PCs a few years back but it seems the rest of the industry is just now catching up.



But Best Buy, the nation’s largest electronics retailer, tells computer buyers that the preinstalled software, also known as bloatware, can clutter their machines and slow them down. You’d be surprised how often consumers tell us to get rid of it,” said Robert Stephens, the head of Geek Squad, the technical support division of Best Buy that removes the software. He declined to say how many people were paying for the service, but said that “it’s going to increase in popularity.”



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