(Unfortunately) HP has been loading their machines with crapware for about a decade now. :(
Edit: Oh and Camera app. On a desktop. Without even a webcam. What is the justification for that?
Was that intentional? Made me laugh either way.
How many OSs come without any graphics applications installed?
> Edit: Oh and Camera app. On a desktop. Without even a webcam. What is the justification for that?
Because a lot of hardware does have a webcam and thus benefits from having the app, while hardware without it sees nothing but a negligible HHD space impact.
If you buy high end laptops from a business partner or directly from the vendor and make sure you get a pro(paid) version of windows things are better but the razor thin margins of the consumer market make it hard to avoid strange and badly designed attempts at price differentiation and/or payola schemes.
On another note, I got an XPS 13 from Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed. As far as I could tell, the only extra software on there was some drivers. I realize that the average person isn't going to want a Linux laptop though.