Definition of "bloatware" [bloatware]

• Informal Software with large, often unused additional features. (noun)

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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."
• "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"
• "Tons of bloatware aka awful software that is hard to remove and conflicts with what you really want to run."