Isn't that bloatware mainly consisting of a recovery image which can be moved to external media to free up space if desired? This is the same thing you get when you buy a laptop or desktop (with 500GB+). In short this is necessary to enable you to reinstall the OS on the tablet without connecting it to any external source ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Brian Munyao Longwe" <blongwe@gmail.com> | To: "Skunkworks Forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> | Sent: Sábado, 2 de Febrero 2013 0:11:05 | Subject: [Skunkworks] 64GB Microsoft Surface Pro will only have 23GB | usable space...eh? | One would have thought that by now Microsoft would have gotten rid of | the bloat in recent Os versions....apparently not... | Full story: | http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/29/3929110/surface-pro-disk-space-windows-8 | _______________________________________________ | skunkworks mailing list | skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke | ------------ | List info, subscribe/unsubscribe | http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks | ------------ | Skunkworks Rules | http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 | ------------ | Other services @ http://my.co.ke