Must know software terms | Noun
those nice sunglasses you receive when you buy two bottles of sun lotion. Except they're not nice, they`re not a gift, you have no use for them and you can never take them off. Bloatware refers to unwanted software included by default with the OS by the manufacturer. Bloatware is difficult to uninstall and it bloats the OS by occupying disk space and memory, especially if it's performing operations in the background. Most people consider Windows updates a prime example of bloatware.
“Why do I have a thing that models birds` flight patterns in 3D and takes up 50GB?” “It's probably bloatware.”
