Windows Vista “craplets”

Walter Mossberg’s column in today’s Wall Street Journal follows up on the reaction garnered by the prior week’s discussion of craplets (great name!). If the junk (trial software, ads and offers) that come installed on Windows Vista machines are craplets, does that make Windows Vista crap? Not really—it accomplishes that all by itself.

Some of the more interesting comments in Mossberg’s column include:

One ray of hope is a free program called PC Decrapifier...this software automates the process of uninstalling craplets.

Dell, Sony and others say they are moving towards a new scenario in which all of this stuff will be easily refused on all models.

Finally, an excellent way to avoid or minimize the craplet problem is to simply buy an Apple Macintosh computer...and you don’t need antivirus or antispyware programs because the Mac is essentially free from those menaces. So, even my year-old Mac laptop reboots roughly three times as fast as my three-week-old Sony.

Well, duh! You get what you deserve when you buy a Windows PC. Craplets, up your whazoo!