“Finally, out of fear of antitrust headaches, Microsoft has stripped Windows 7 of some important accessory programs. Believe it or not, software for managing photos, editing videos, reading PDF documents, maintaining a calendar, managing addresses, chatting online or writing e-mail doesn’t come with Windows 7.”
State of the Art - Windows 7 Cleans Up a Misstep - NYTimes.com (via thebumblebees)
Ohh weird…That’s not true. They removed things because everyone gave them shit about bloat and they wanted to be able to break apart those products to update them more frequently (if they are tied to the OS then they don’t get updated often enough). They have never had antitrust issues with any of that stuff. This decision was universally praised when they announced it last year. Reading PDF documents has never been supported natively in windows. Ohhh I see…it’s David Pogue