Bloatware

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Informal Software with large, often unused additional features.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Software that is overpacked with features and therefore slow or unwieldy; software that is inefficiently designed and occupies an excessive amount of memory or disk space.
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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