Lenovo is going to be Windows 8 pc’s start menu, start button, and app store. The applications are under the name Pokki developed by the American SweetLabs and according to that company the Windows 8 experience to improve’, although the way of bloatware.
Microsoft itself changes with Windows 8.1, 17 October, the start menu and start button, but Lenovo does not seem on the arrival of the update to wait and adds a platform that some of the criticism of the OS to tackle. Manufacturers complain all the times that Windows 8 them does not help to have more pc’s to sell. Lenovo develops, from the start menu, the start button and the app store, however, is not himself, but opts for the Pokki platform from SweetLabs, which was previously an agreement concluded with Acer.
The Pokki platform provides users with the possibility of apps in the start menu on their system via drag ‘n drop to move. It turns out not only to the Windows apps, but also apps that are specifically for the Pokki platform are developed. SweetLabs turns out to Lenovo to pay for the placement of its Pokki software on pcs, the company to Computerworld, that the software as bloatware is considered. Bloatware is software, third-party manufacturers for commercial reasons on their systems where the user has asked, that on the first use already installed and that the system is often slow down. Examples of bloatware include, for example, trials of anti-viruspakketten.
SweetLabs gets its revenue from a share of the revenue that App developers generate. The apps on the platform are free, but developers can earn money with in-app purchases. The platform gives users recommendations on which apps they can download, based on the pc-use. Pokki can, however, users are still not redirecting to the Windows Store: that option should later this year be added.
