• This news piece covers the annoying issue of bloatware and how Microsoft has finally acknowledged and provided a solution for it.
• Windows 10 Pro users have an “Easy-peasy-lemony-squeezy” new way to navigate through the bloatware-free installation.
• The “secret sauce” is the ability to choose between a clean installation of Windows 10 or the traditional installation which includes bloatware.
• The option is currently available only for Preview users in the Windows Insider Program.
• Regular Windows users will have to wait for the feature to eventually become part of the mainline release.
• Heaped praises for Microsoft for finally acknowledging the bloatware issue and providing a sweet and short resolution for it.
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No More Bloatware, a Windows Wonderland
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Time to Say Bye-Bye to Bloatware
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Goodbye to you, dear Bloatware, and don’t let the door hit you on the way out! Just when we were ready to launch a colony to Mars just to escape the frustratingly persistent, sneaky bloatware that clings on more eagerly than a toddler clutching a candy bar, Microsoft has come to the rescue. The tech giant, much like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, has waved its magic wand and provided a rather ‘smooth as silk’ resolution for ensuring bloatware-free Windows installations.
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‘Glassy-eyed Admirers of Microsoft, Unite’
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While the rest of us not-so-special muggles, away from the Windows Insider Program, might still have to count sheep at night without this fantastic feature, Preview users can already live a bloat-free fantasy life.
So here’s my hot take: Time to raise a glass to Microsoft for finally answering our cries in the wilderness about bloatware, providing an ‘on-demand’ switch to a clean, bloatware-free system. It’s like someone just turned on the light at the end of a dark, cluttered, slow-moving tunnel. Toast to the dawn of a new era, free of those self-loading software bits that take up more real estate than a Beverly Hills mansion on our hard drives. Here’s hoping the rest of the Microsoft kingdom gets to relish this feature soon. Till then, patience is our only virtue. So, keep calm, carry on and save room for dessert, because this bloatware-free technology feast is about to get served!
Original Article: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-clean-install-windows-11/