Google And Dell, I Smell CRAPWARE
Lots of talk about Google and Dell teaming up to add Google stuff onto new Dell PCs. Rumors and predictions abound at the moment including possibilities that this could be a Star Office suite and thus Google's entree into the desktop software suite battle. (Is there one?) Of course the recently debuted Google Pack will probably be a part of any such offering. As I recall, that didn't meet with great gushers of enthusiasm.
Is it just me, but does anyone other than me smell a new slew of CRAPWARE, bogging down new PCs? Michael Parekh seems to hint that way. He says that this might create another "horserace" for control of the desktop. He's probably right. That just means we'll all be struggling along behind the horses figuring out how to clean up the CRAPWARE that comes preinstalled.
