Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Software with large, often unused additional features.
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- noun computing
Software that is overpacked with features and therefore slow orunwieldy ; software that is inefficiently designed and occupies an excessive amount ofmemory ordisk space.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The included apps -- described by some fuming customers as 'bloatware' -- such as 360 updates, a music shop and another Web browser, were also said not to even work due to network connectivity problems.
Crave at CNET UK 2010
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The trouble with all of these applications - call them 'bloatware' - is that they clog your hard drive and very likely hamper the performance of your new
WN.com - Articles related to Robbie Williams Races into the App Store 2010
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The trouble with all of these applications - call them 'bloatware' - is that they clog your hard drive and very likely hamper the performance of your new
WN.com - Articles related to Google moves off China mainland 2010
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Tons of bloatware aka awful software that is hard to remove and conflicts with what you really want to run.
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Moreover, trial software -- sometimes called bloatware -- that PC manufacturers preload onto computers can further clog the machine.
PC Makers Offer 2008
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Anyway, for 96,362% of users it will be just a useless icon in the tabbar (aka bloatware).
Planet Mozilla 2010
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Each ROM has customization that can be described as bloatware with a purpose.
WMExperts 2009
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Dell has decided to get rid of all the trialware, otherwise known as bloatware, that the Vostro range ships with.
Geek.com 2009
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Not learning its rootkitlesson, Sony was going to charge $50 to remove "bloatware" from its hardware; it quickly backpedalled.
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Microsoft Windows and other Windows software, in particular, have reputations as "bloatware," hogging huge amounts of memory that really is not necessary.
Data Storage & Retrieval: Does Moore's Law Really Account for Better, Cheaper Technology? 2006
vmarinelli commented on the word bloatware
Example sentence: It took me over two hours to remove only a small portion of the bloatware that ships with the computer.
November 19, 2007