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Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar
Foofoobar writes "Due to a strike with the UK's postal system, people in Great Britain are getting copies of Windows 7 early and have already posted their experiences about the install process. Some have an easy time but others post installs taking 3 hours including Windows asking them to remove iTunes and Google toolbar prior to installation." The article indicates that many of these early users, though, are having better luck.
Microsoft suffers FUD posts
Awww. Talk about "taste of their own medicine"! Hey, is their Zune software also available for mac?
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It's called coding, either M$ are capable or incapable. Both Itunes and the google toolbar are well known, the changes they make are readily discoverable and can be taken into account considering the millions upon millions of installations. Why the uninstall, nothing more than the marketing hope that consumers won't re-install them once they have been un-installed.
As for windows upgrades, I have a done many, sure most of them worked, 'for a time', but ultimately every one of them failed whether days or weeks later and took far longer to rebuild because of the unexpected collapse. Do it safe, do it clean and for the sake of safety and sanity, dual boot your system, that way you can always boot to Ubuntu et al to fix up a crippled windows install, hey it might only be for playing games but it can really be frustrating when you can't access you library of windows games to relieve the tensions ;D.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Sony Acid, Sony Soundforge, Photoshop. uTorrent, Emule.
I'm going to go way out on a limb here and suggest that you aquired the first three of those packages using the last two. Like every other Windows kiddie.