Microsoft is changing the way Refresh and Reset works in Windows 10. Computer manufacturers won’t be able to pollute the recovery image with their own software and modifications. Manufacturer-provided software is stored separately.
Windows will restore the system to a known-good state before installing the manufacturer-provided software and configuration changes. These changes will be stored separately in a different package. You’ll be able to delete this manufacturer-provided package of software and changes from a Windows 10 PC and then run a refresh or reset. This will restore your computer to a fresh state with only Microsoft’s own Windows software installed and no manufacturer-provided junkware installed.
I hope they also mean their bloatware as well. like skype, onedrive, xbox app...etc all of these apps I could not uninstall from the win 10 preview. also these whole "reinstall windows" buttons sound cool on paper but last I checked windows needs all sorts of drives manually installed before it will work properly. I mean windows does not even have something as basic as drives for an Intel nic out of the box. If MS wants me to use this feature they need to get where Linux has been for a while. Every time I have installed Ubuntu it has all just worked out of the box. Really I think the way apple does its reinstall of OSX is probably the best way I have seen reinstalling an OS. use a disk/USB drive or the bios(uefi) can download the latest fully patched version of it and install it that way with no media or thumb drive.
the only issue with this is that, to restore the system you needed the recovery disc which i thought was pretty dumb. on Windows 10, you don't need it. it works without it. which is pretty good i guess. and the funny thing about this article is when they say "How Microsoft achieves a "Compact" footprint." 14-ish gigs for an OS is NOT Compact at all.
