1. no you can't, windows does not restore your PC to FACTORY status, only the vendor restore disk can do that. 2. I'm pretty sure windows update don't update vendor software or BIOS. Btw, updating BIOS is very safe today, there's no chance you can mess up your BIOS at all. You are thinking of 2002 BIOS update maybe, not 2012. BIOS update is very useful, probably the single most significant way to boost compatibility and performance. 3. Webcam/camera don't always come with software, especially the used ones, and the vendor software isn't usually better than the Cyberlink software. You are getting a paid software for free, why complain. 4. Spotify, I agree, there's no point to pre-install

oh geez, you can play TF2 on linux, windows is surely doomed as a gaming platform. Let's ignore the tens of thousands other games that only works on windows.

How hard would it be for MSFT to provide a button to clean up all the crap 3rd party stuff in a single click and return the OS to original state. They don't care about the users.

Actually I really prefer they load the PC with as much crapware as they can, so my total buy price gets subsidized. It's a piece of cake to remove them. I'd rather receive a crap loaded PC for $100 less, than paying more for a clean PC.

formal channel cost 50X more money

they are too busy paying their employees 6 figures and messing around with unprofitable projects to care

you forgot the /s tag, the google Chinese arm had a message in the bottom of their page when you search censored material. "Some search results maybe censored due to local laws and regulations"

wait, what? "free speech violation"? private entity can censor anything at will, for example your company's firewall probably block majority of naughty websites.

They should definitely stop putting these stupid buttons on the keyboard, or at least require two keys pressed simultaneously to work.

Except the warehouse in Texas was owned by an independent company with contract with amazon (and probably a subsidiary of amazon).

His argument still valid. What if on a $500 item, amazon has the same price as your local store, or maybe even amazon price is higher than your local store by $10, free shipping. But at your local store, you get hit with 7% sales tax, you are still going to buy from amazon, right? But now what if amazon had to charge the same 7% sales tax? Now you will buy locally, no brainer. The fact is if amazon had to charge sales tax, their revenue probably will drop by at least 20%, which would probably push their earning into the negative, considering they are on a razor-thin margin currently.

This $100M payout from The Lime Group will probably more than cover their entire cost of all other lawsuits combined in the past 20 years.

Limewire is owned by the Lime Group, which also owns hedge funds and other companies that worth billions of dollars. This is one of the reason RIAA went after Limewire, because the potential payout is huge. The $100m will be paid by Lime Group.

I have never understood the need to exchange real money for equal amount of "fake money" that you can only spend at a certain shop. Most gift cards don't even give discounts.

The problem isn't the B&M offices. The problem is they offer incredible low rates to mass mailers, and then try to use the retail customers to subsidize the mass mailers. But now retail business is plummeting due to internet/email. They continue to offer low rates to mass mailers, but can't find new source of income to subsidize them, thus the $7 Billion a year deficit.