Lenovo pre-tax income declines 80pc due to 'severe challenges'
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Global PC and tablet slowdowns plus increased smartphone competition blamed.
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Re: Lenovo pre-tax income declines 80pc due to 'severe challenges'
Between SuperFish and this latest fiasco with the bios injection, they're lucky to be in business, period. Superfish killed them with the above average privacy advocates, and the bios issues will kill any government contracts they may have had - which is a shame, because they make a decent machine otherwise.
Re: Lenovo pre-tax income declines 80pc due to 'severe challenges'
As someone who has been a rather large advocate of Lenovo laptops (mainly the T-Series though), I was surprised by the BIOS injection under-handedness. On the whole I have really liked their ethos....but that was unforgivable.
Some of those numbers look quite shocking.......
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What gets me is that even with a fresh install the bloatware is activated :(
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Banthon
What gets me is that even with a fresh install the bloatware is activated :(
On my Lenovo notebook I deleted all partitions on my hard drive and formatted it. I then downloaded the iso Windows 7 that came with it and freshly installed windows from a USB memory stick using the License on the back of it. Bingo, clean install with no bloatware...
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bae85
On my Lenovo notebook I deleted all partitions on my hard drive and formatted it. I then downloaded the iso Windows 7 that came with it and freshly installed windows from a USB memory stick using the License on the back of it. Bingo, clean install with no bloatware...
That's because the bios injector only affects 8, 8.1 and 10, because that's where (typically) the MS license is stored on oem machines - Windows 7 still maintains the license primarily (or only) in the registry. There were some cases where HP/Compaq and Dell also had a sort of bios setting for Vista, which was later used for the purposes of a free upgrade to 7, but it hasn't been used again with 7.
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GuidoLS
That's because the bios injector only affects 8, 8.1 and 10, because that's where (typically) the MS license is stored on oem machines - Windows 7 still maintains the license primarily (or only) in the registry. There were some cases where HP/Compaq and Dell also had a sort of bios setting for Vista, which was later used for the purposes of a free upgrade to 7, but it hasn't been used again with 7.
Ah, I have never bought anything with Windows 8 so I presumed it would be simple!
