In no ones defense or otherwise, it IS a Windoz world, coorporate or otherwise, leave it to marketing/tech (Jobs is MUCH worse) wizards to sell us billions of dollars worth of "software" we do not need or really use
3 of my 4 computers run OpenBSD, but alas that 1 is required by me for suport purposes (no games and crap) and for the record i do reimage (ghost,clonezilla) quite frequently. The slowdowns and other crap i try to maintain by daily cleaning/scanning and weekly defragmenting of hard disks.
I to do hate the unnerving and god dam stupid crap that Windoz does and does not do, i guess it just goes to show that TV is always right and the masses (that learn from TV) are even righter .....