One of my biggest beefs with Dell is that you HAVE to select one of their options for the "crapware" that's bundled with a new computer. Well, hopefully that will soon change. During the Featured Communities Lunch with Jim Allchin @ CES, Jim said that he talked to a Dell executive, and that they're going to look into offering "clean" Vista computers for sale by adding a "none" option to each software selection. Mary Jo Foley corroborated this with another Dell executive later in the show.
Let's hope that I won't have to do a clean install of Vista immediately after I get my girlfriend her new Vista laptop. Thanks, Jim!