Windows Se7en Forcast

Windows 7 to Dump E – Webmonkey

Microsoft is planning to remove e-mail, photo editing, movie making and other secondary software offerings from the upcoming Windows 7. Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Mail, and Windows Movie Maker were all part of Vista, but, in an effort to cut down on development time of future OS updates, Microsoft plans to give them the heave-ho.

Instead users will be directed to download the Windows Live programs that replace each of those apps. In fact, Microsoft has already been encouraging users to replace the Vista versions with the Windows Live equivalents.

I have been looking forward to them doing this for some time now. I simply hate vista and its bloated suckware. it is simply time that they did this but there are noticeably bad things with this concept. They admit to not wanting to take the time to fully develop the system and get it out as soon as possible, which simply could make this another Windows Vista or worse another Windows ME. It is good that lazy consumers who just assumed what came with windows was good enough, will be forced to actually use better programs and just maybe produce less crappy content for the web.

The one program I am sure they won’t touch though will be notepad. That is simplicity at its best. The one program I am almost completely sure will go will be wordpad. This is a shame in many ways since it is all the word processing power most people will ever need, I have long been advocating that to my friends and family.

In the end I am hoping for a good release of Windows Se7en (windows seven). The crap I have seen with vista has caused me to convert much of my PC use to Linux, but despite what many Linux users will have you believe, it can’t do everything just as well. It will do it far more cheaply which often makes up the difference, but there is something to be said for having an OS on at least one machine that I can play all the latest games on.