Before Windows 10, a clean install of Windows only included the bare essentials a user would need to get started using their PC.
This changed with Windows 8, with the addition of auto-updating apps such as Travel, News and more.
Still, these were acceptable, preinstalled Windows apps and were not really classed as bloatware.
With Windows 10, a clean install stays that way for about two minutes, because the second you hit the desktop, the Microsoft Store immediately starts trying to download third-party apps and games.
You should not see any of these apps on a fresh install of Windows 10, yet they are there every single time.
On a fresh, untouched, clean install of Windows 10, these apps will download themselves onto your PC.
It may only be six apps that are installing themselves, but that's more than what Apple automatically installs on Macs. »