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Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar

Posted by timothy on from the you-choose-the-teapot-you-choose-the-tempest dept.

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.

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  1. Wow by Kratisto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows 7 recognizes how bad iTunes is? Even XP can't do that! I'm switching right now... Where'd I put my MSDNAA login?

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    1. Re:Wow by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I always assumed iTunes realised how bad Windows was and added some extra idle loops and random malloc() calls to try to fit in...

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  2. Re:Remove itunes? by stranger_to_himself · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, a good idea from microsoft.

    Surely the real story here is that the postal strike is somehow causing mail to be delivered faster.

  3. Re:Sounds good to me by oldspewey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sometimes it will chew up 90%+ of CPU for no apparent reason.

    It's thinking different.

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  4. Re:Windows Upgrades by psp · · Score: 5, Funny

    But why does this have to be the case with MS Windows?
    I never had this problem on my GNU/Linux system. Nor have I ever heard anyone about this issue on Mac OSX.

    No, OSX only downgrades Flash to a vulnerable version. Nothing to worry about.

  5. Re:Windows Upgrades by Brad1138 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Critical registry entries get deleted, DLLs go missing, directories get moved and everything goes to hell in a hand-basket.

    This is Windows, what's your point?

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  6. Re:Sounds good to me by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Need to test your UI responsiveness while under high load?

    There's an app for that.

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