trialware

Their term is "trialware" or "bonus applications" or whatever weird spin term their marketing department thought up one fun afternoon during a game of "spin the product".

tuxmachines.org srlinuxx 2010

For the uninitiated, crapware (also known as "trialware") is the numerous trial programs that come pre-installed on many new Windows computers, and can often slow down your new computer's performance right out of the box.

PCWorld 2010

Their term is "trialware" or "bonus applications" or whatever weird spin term their marketing department thought up one fun afternoon during a game of "spin the product".

tuxmachines.org srlinuxx 2010

- In an ironic twist, it's coming to light that computers purchased from the Microsoft retail stores will not contain the 'trialware' that was typically included in new PC's.

Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

Computers that are shipped with only the software its customers ordered and no annoying "trialware"

Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed 2009

I went to their web site and they want me to fill in a form to get trialware.

Discourse.net: Data Point 2009

Translation: Instead of you paying Best Buy to delete trialware from your new PC, Best Buy will get paid by software makers to try to get you to install it.

The Consumerist: January 2010 Archives 2010

The computers we received still had the trialware installed - only the shortcuts were removed from the desktop.

Best Buy Optimization Is A Big Stupid Annoying Waste Of Money - The Consumerist 2010

Translation: Instead of you paying Best Buy to delete trialware from your new PC, Best Buy will get paid by software makers to try to get you to install it.

Is Best Buy About To Ditch Optimization To Sell Crapware? - The Consumerist 2010

PC vendors big and small load up your machine with trialware and generalized bloat to take up disk and slow down the machine.

Microsoft’s Brand Problem : #comments 2008