the hardware manufacturer submits the ‘bloatware’ as drivers or other ‘essential’ software to microsoft to be included in the library of third-party shit microsoft delivers via windows update, which can then be segregated into automatically or optionally installed.

hardware manufacturers are abusing this process to install bits (such as ads) that are not actually required for basic functionality of their hardware.

DP has features like Display Stream Compression and Forward Error Correction that needs a driver to encode/decode.