Many people, and a lot of my friends, complain about their “private data” being made known to large companies. Facebook, Rogers, and other huge companies constantly get flak for collecting personal information about their clients. But they do this to make advertising and your overall user experience MORE RELEVANT. Sears however, sucks at this:
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Cleaning out my friend’s old HP Pavilion 522n required using ONLY the 8 recovery CD’s to reinstall Windows XP Home.
After an hour of just uninstalling the default crap I started up IE to go to Windows Update’s site and I was greeted with this.
Apparently Microsoft assumes that the only reason you will go to runonce.msn.com [...]
From http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu:
I went to download Ubuntu for an extra computer I have and I was presented with these options. Apparently Ubuntu thinks that ordering a CD and waiting 6-10 weeks is better than waiting for 700mb even on the slowest connection.