I used to work in security for one of the big OEM hardware vendors, Microsoft has been working with all vendors for years trying to secure the Window's ecosystem by extending out their SDLC and providing free security services and training to OEM partners.
We use to ship them our consumer laptops for testing, and the result was always the same "get rid of the crapware". MS is probably more upset about this than anyone, because ultimately this isn't about Windows at all, but people don't differentiate between Windows and the garbage that OEM's throw on their boxes, so they get blamed as well.
We use to ship them our consumer laptops for testing, and the result was always the same "get rid of the crapware". MS is probably more upset about this than anyone, because ultimately this isn't about Windows at all, but people don't differentiate between Windows and the garbage that OEM's throw on their boxes, so they get blamed as well.