Microsoft offers its own laptops that come with a pure Windows experience

Where can you buy a PC without the bloatware, shovelware, or adware that’s characterized Lenovo’s Superfish fiasco? Microsoft has an answer for you: its little-known Signature Edition laptops. For only a few dollars more than what you’d pay for a laptop from Asus, Dell, Lenovo, or other manufacturers, Microsoft offers a stripped-down notebook with just the latest version of Windows on board, which it claims is “tuned for performance.” “When you buy a new PC at Microsoft Store, we ensure there’s no third-party junkware or trialware installed,” Microsoft’s Signature Edition Web site says. Toolbars, spyware, utilities and other unwanted apps reside on your hard drive in typical boxed computers, periodically popping up ads and/or enticements for you to subscribe to their services. They also can slow down your PC with hidden processes that run in the background. Microsoft’s Signature Editions fill an odd niche in the computing universe, offering a product that the computer manufacturers themselves don’t deliver: a “clean,” optimized PC.