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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.

6 of 496 comments (clear)

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

    No, it's Vista Service Pack 2.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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  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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    Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
  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. Redmond Package Manager... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    has a good ring to it.