Now this is really a nice move from Microsoft. 
Microsoft has announced that it will not be shipping Windows Mail, Photo Gallery & Movie Maker along with Windows 7. Instead users can download the Windows Live programs themselves as and when they need it.
In a follow-up interview on Monday, Windows Vista general manager Brian Hall said Microsoft made the decision to remove the tools from Windows for several reasons, including a desire to issue new operating system releases more quickly than it has in the past. The move also removes the confusion of offering and supporting two different programs that perform essentially similar functions.
“It makes it much cleaner,” Hall said.
A huge step to a cleaner Windows install.
But as to how Microsoft will advertise its Windows Live services inside Windows 7 OS remains to be seen. If users have to download a mail client they can download Thunderbird instead, why to go for Windows Mail. Or for Photo Gallery, Picasa can do the job. So if MS is removing Windows Mail, Photo Gallery it will have to aggressively pursue the users to download the Live programs.
2 comments
Gary says:
Nov 12, 2008
I have installed a beta version of Windows 7 and can confirm that there is no Windows live products. There is however Windows Messenger. All other programs must be individually downloaded. There are no advertisements for Windows live in the OS as far as I can tell.
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