TechRepublic is geared to techies, but the post below can be used by anyone still buying Windows computers who runs into the loaded PC with, well, yes, crapware.

Five apps for crapware cleanup | TechRepublic

On-Site Technical Solutions typically removes the nonessential "stuff" from computers in our setup process for our clients. While talking to others about buying PCs, we are often asked about the best way to remove these non-essential, spammy programs and offers.

For those of you buying new Windows PCs, here are five tools for that cleanup!

PC Decrapifier

SlimComputer

WinPatrol

Revo Uninstaller

CCleaner

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As recently as three years ago we wouldn't support Macs on a business network. We supported Mac networks for a business, but not adding Macs to a Microsoft network.

That started changing when we could get the Macs to more seamlessly communicate on the Microsoft network and really took off with the roll out of Google Apps. When applications are in the Cloud, it doesn't matter if the platform accessing them are PC, Mac, Android, Linux or iOs (iPhone).

As noted in the post below from PCWorld, Microsoft had 96% of the operating systems visiting 40,000 websites in 2007. When figures are released this month that figure is likely to fall to less than 90%.

The article talks about Linux and Mac and then notes:

However, the biggest market share thief is mobile devices, in the form of cellphones and tablets, which have seen the fastest growth. iOS, Apple's mobile phone OS that runs on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, grew from 0.24 percent in January 2009, to 1.69 percent in December 2010, and Java Mobile Edition--which powers the browsers in many mobile phones--grew from 0.22 percent to 0.91 percent in the same period.

We can't see anything that is going to slow or alter that trend - as more tablets roll out competing with the iPad expect it accelerate.

The PC Is Dead: Long Live Portable, Pluralistic Computing - PCWorld Business Center

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