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By: » Open Letter to Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, and Sony Corp: I Am Not A PC - By ¡Para Justicia y Libertad!

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:23:56 +0000

[...] am not the only person who has complained about Sony’s PCs. Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal has a Sony Vaio as well and has described experience in less-than [...]

By: The Squirrels Are Watching » Blog Archive » Love / Hate Sony

The Squirrels Are Watching » Blog Archive » Love / Hate Sony — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:07:05 +0000

[...] amount of bloatware slows things down, and there’s massive icon overload. Walt Mossberg has a good piece on this, but I disagree with him that he would have had a similar experience on an HP laptop. [...]

By: Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report mobile edition

Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report mobile edition — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:29:16 +0000

[...] minutes to start up? This is the same crappy Sony notebook that Mossberg was complaining about back in April, and it seems downright unfair to pick this one sluggish machine and continue using [...]

By: Using Even New PCs Is Ruined by a Tangle of Trial Programs, Ads « Free Lance Computer Guru

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:34:05 +0000

[...] Using Even New PCs Is Ruined by a Tangle of Trial Programs, Ads http://ptech.allthingsd.com/?p.....=printable [...]

By: raanan.com - My AT&T Blackberry Curve 8300 Review

raanan.com - My AT&T Blackberry Curve 8300 Review — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:21:31 +0000

[...] run, it can add all kinds of extra icons that simply get in the way. Not quite as bad as PC “craplets“, but for a high end phone, I would have much preferred some kind of gift certificate in the [...]

By: Aspire to Despair - OffBeatMammal

Aspire to Despair - OffBeatMammal — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:08:13 +0000

[...] better. At least the install did. Got Vista up and running without a hiccup this time and set about culling the more obvious bloatware. Does anybody ever use or register any of this cruft? I hate to agree with the Apple marketing [...]

By: System Tray a Tangle at Rusty Hinges

System Tray a Tangle at Rusty Hinges — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:17:54 +0000

[...] Here’s what Walt Mossberg at WSJ has to say: Using Even New PCs Is Ruined by a Tangle of Trial Programs. [...]

By: T-Minus One Day: More Countdown to D and a "Craplets!" Surprise for Walt | BoomTown | Kara Swisher | AllThingsD

Mon, 28 May 2007 20:13:22 +0000

[...] phrase was coined by Walt in a column here, referring to all the unsolicited third-party programs that come loaded onto Windows PCs. We liked [...]

By: RazorWatch » Blog Archive » PCs are getting reallyreally bad.

RazorWatch » Blog Archive » PCs are getting reallyreally bad. — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:15:06 +0000

[...] it be setting up and securing a machine or dealing with the poorly designed interface and software. Walt Mossberg, I don’t usually agree with him, has a great blog/vlog that describes the frustration of [...]

By: Craplet or Crapware... It's Not Right « Scott’s Blog

Craplet or Crapware... It's Not Right « Scott’s Blog — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:45:59 +0000

[...] or Crapware… It’s Not Right Last month Walt Mossberg complained about the amount of craplets that came on a new PC. A few days after his column hit the streets Apple came out with a [...]