funny how only corporate IT can make a 10th gen i7 behave like this for 10 minutes on every boot
a primary theme of the stream last night was the sony vaio shittop i brought home, which took three hours to do a recovery install. only 30 minutes, at most, was spent doing the reimage. the rest was installing shitware.
this thing came with literally dozens, perhaps over a hundred pieces of Commercial Malware. sony was on total autopilot, completely uninterested in whether their computer was any good; they loaded it to the gills with everything from office 2007 trial, norton internet security, and microsoft fucking works, to dozens and dozens of awful shitty flash games, and each was added with a separate installer even though it does nothing other than put a shortcut on the desktop... and start menu... and system control panel... and the fucking vista OOBE dialog. they not only put gallons of malware on there, they put it in so many places that you can't miss it.
this was circa 2008 and sony had already achieved the Modern Business Third Eye Opening, which is any or both of these conclusions:
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the product is not the product. the customer is the product, and the purpose of selling our thing is to get them to look at someone else's ads; thus, the performance and quality of our thing is utterly irrelevant.
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anything that happens in software has absolutely no associated costs, it is simply free real estate. thus, if we can shave off a single penny of profit by shoving some stupid ad in our customers faces, we can call that free money. if we do that 500 times, that's $5. hey, $5!
no modern corporation is above picking up pennies they find on the ground, no matter how much mud they have to stomp through to get there, no matter how humiliating it is. reputation is fake in their eyes, and they're probably right, so sony was willing to put ten thousand stupid ads on here that make the machine literally unusable because, in their eyes, the fact that it rendered their product moot was either irrelevant or simply worth it. if it takes mortifying themselves in front of 500 separate individuals to make $5, sony will take the $5. all modern businesses will.
assertions about why vista was unpopular removed
