Windows 7 Trades Email and Photo Apps For Downloadable Ones

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.

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Re:Windows 7

[darkmeridian]

A repackaged Vista SP2 would sell like hotcakes. Vista SP2 was so much better than the original version. It was more stable, booted very quickly, and didn't keep harassing me. I was able to convert lots of users back to Vista simply by installing the SP2 upgrade. The hardware manufacturers have started to support Vista, so those problems will decrease. If all Microsoft did was to decrease the bloat from the Vista SP2 code base just a little, worked with vendors to have hardware compatibility out of the box, this Windows 7 will sell like hotcakes.

Re:While this may not please some...

[Toll_Free]

May I introduce you to "CONTROL PANEL".

Now, click Add/Remove Programs.

Wow, interesting, eh? And they had this before your beloved Linux!

--Toll_Free

Re:Will they take MSIE out as well?

[apoc.famine]

FTP? SCP? Package Manager with various browser options?

Oh, wait. You were replying as a windows user. My bad. I forgot that in windows land you ONLY use a browser to interact with the internet.