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Windows 7 Trades Email and Photo Apps For Downloadable Ones

Posted by timothy on from the unlike-those-bundlers-at-canonical-red-hat-etc dept.

arcticstoat writes "Microsoft has said that it plans to remove a lot of the standard apps from Windows 7 in order to make the new OS 'cleaner.' Among the apps for the chop are Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker, which will no longer be included with the operating system as standard. Instead, equivalent versions of the apps will be available from Microsoft's Windows Live download service as optional free downloads, much like the new BETA versions of the apps that Windows Live offers today." Meanwhile, jammag writes that "tech pundit Mike Elgan posits that the rushed-to-market Windows 7 — due in 2010, now being beta released this October — may in fact merely be Vista with new packaging.

21 of 496 comments (clear)

  1. Windows 7 by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that the new Mojave thing we've been hearing about?

    1. Re:Windows 7 by Kifoth · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, it's Vista Service Pack 2.

    2. Re:Windows 7 by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 5, Funny

      Vista SP2 is going to remove my email (Thunderbird) and photo apps (Picasa)?

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    3. Re:Windows 7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      No, it's Vista Beta 3

    4. Re:Windows 7 by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 5, Funny

      That is what Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool does .... maliciously removes software.

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    5. Re:Windows 7 by Naughty+Bob · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, it's Vista Beta 3

      Also known as the "Avoid Further EU Fines" edition.

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    6. Re:Windows 7 by Random+BedHead+Ed · · Score: 3, Funny

      Shhhhhh! Someone put Ubuntu on his machine and didn't tell him what it was. Quick - retract your comment before he finds out.

    7. Re:Windows 7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      .... maliciously removes software.

      Does it also remove Vista?

    8. Re:Windows 7 by fireman+sam · · Score: 4, Funny

      yeah, and you can download a free copy of a malicious software removal live CD at http://www.ubuntu.com/

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    9. Re:Windows 7 by yayotters · · Score: 1, Funny

      Perhaps Microsoft is going the Apple route and charging for service packs now? :P

  2. Re:This webification has gone too far. by not+already+in+use · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not RTFA is bad enough, but apparently you didn't even bother to read the summary.

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  3. Re:While this may not please some... by Teckla · · Score: 4, Funny

    I rather like the idea of having an OS with as little on it as possible.

    That way I can add what I see fit, much like the Server OS.

    Hey it's a step in the right direction.

    Next, they should create some kind of ... I don't know, package or application manager maybe, which would allow users to easily add/remove programs ... might have to wait until Windows 8 or 9 for that, though. But, never fear, Microsoft can innovate it. :-)

  4. I'm a slashdot user.... by webappsec · · Score: 5, Funny

    and no matter what Microsoft does I'm going to bitch and complain about how they should/shouldn't have done it years ago and that Linux is far superior.

  5. Re:Will they take MSIE out as well? by Qalthos · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yeah, really... let's think about that for a minute:

    User installs Windows, only to find no browser installed by default. "That's okay," says the user, "I'll just download one... from the Internet... without a browser..."

    Easily removable and decoupled from the system I could see. But let's not get silly.

  6. I can do better than that by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't even read the *title, so I'll just cover all my bases:
    Steve Ballmer, the RIAA, Sarah Palin, and software patents are evil and must be *stopped!

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  7. Re:Stupid by Radical+Moderate · · Score: 2, Funny

    Download the email software? I don't have an internet connection, you insensitive clod!

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  8. Re:EU lawsuit workaround + OpenSuse DVD FTW by afidel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Another satisfied Win9x user I see =)

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  9. Abort, Retry, Fail? by goombah99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think the old error message ABORT, RETRY, FAIL? pretty much sums up Vista.

    But it's not vista Beta 3 as much as it named after the movie SEVEN.

    it's got the seven deadly sins including sloth and gluttony.

    And at the end, you'll with it was your head in the box.

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    1. Re:Abort, Retry, Fail? by Tawnos · · Score: 2, Funny

      Secretly, that project was an internal code for "impromptu office party." We let the press think what they want ;).

      I mean, really, why would we name our product after a fruity (okay, mediciny) alcohol?

  10. Redmond Package Manager... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    has a good ring to it.

  11. "All my bases"? by tepples · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't even read the *title, so I'll just cover all my bases

    You can cover them all you want, but you can't cover the fact that they are belong to us.