{"id":762,"date":"2008-03-27T01:46:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T01:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.hothardware.com:\/\/f72d3b0360fb2280a731810fe369b5f6"},"modified":"2008-03-27T01:46:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T01:46:15","slug":"sony-sort-of-removes-no-bloatware-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"Sony &#8220;Sort Of&#8221; Removes &#8220;No Bloatware&#8221; Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People were up in arms when Sony announced its &#8220;Fresh Start&#8221; no bloatware option &#8211; because Sony wanted to charge $50 for it.Starting on Saturday, Sony&#8217;s Fresh Start software optimization feature will be free, the company announced.Fresh Start is a Sony feature that lets customers buy certain laptops without so-called &#8220;bloatware,&#8221; trial software that laptop makers often load onto new machines. Sony was asking buyers of the Vaio TZ2000 and Vaio TZ2500 notebooks with the Windows Vista Business OS to pay $49.99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People were up in arms when Sony announced its &#8220;Fresh Start&#8221; no bloatware option &#8211; because Sony wanted to charge $50 for it.Starting on Saturday, Sony&#8217;s Fresh Start software optimization feature will be free, the company announced.Fresh Start is a Sony feature that lets customers buy certain laptops without so-called &#8220;bloatware,&#8221; trial software that laptop makers often load onto new machines. Sony was asking buyers of the Vaio TZ2000 and Vaio TZ2500 notebooks with the Windows Vista Business OS to pay $49.99 <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=762\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}