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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.

7 of 496 comments (clear)

  1. frist ps0t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lol wut

  2. first dong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the penis is a myth!

    1. Re:first dong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      the penis is a myth!

      Well, mine is the stuff of legend, but it's hardly a myth. :-P

    2. Re:first dong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Pics or GTFO

    3. Re:first dong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You must be a Mac user.

  3. This webification has gone too far. by tjstork · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man, I actually think with Vista, Microsoft finally got Windows mail right. I mean, it's a pretty darn nice little client and web based everything sucks. gmail is a good web mail but I would prefer a real client any day of the week. Even Linux Evolution is a better email than any web based email...

    somebody has to get rid of Ray Ozzie at Microsoft. Mr. Zroom or whatever he is has just a moron.

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  4. deadly sins... by Speare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone else bemused by the screen mockups using a "Windows Se7en" logo written that way? As in the gore-thrill movie of a killer highlighting the se7en deadly sins?

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