Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar 570
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.
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Misleading summary (Score:1, Funny)
A non-story? On Slashdot, an exaggerated tempest in a teapot? You know that's unique, because otherwise there would be a tag.
Re:Remove itunes? (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.
Re:Sounds good to me (Score:5, Funny)
Sometimes it will chew up 90%+ of CPU for no apparent reason.
It's thinking different.
Re:Lie about windows to get posted on slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
I agree, but I can't resist...
content with his instillation of Windows 7 on a computer
I wish I could figure out how to instill Windows into my computer. Maybe even infuse it with Windows.
Re:About iTunes -- from the article (Score:1, Funny)
It is not just iTunes. When I went to install Windows 7, it told me to uninstall Gnu/Linux first. Which I did, but after installing Windows 7, it allowed me to reinstall Gnu/Linux.
However, Gnu/Linux seem to totally delete Windows 7 after the install reformated the drive. Must be a law to stop Gnu/Linux from doing that, isn't there?
I mean like anti-trust law suit or something?
Re:Windows Upgrades (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.
Re:Windows Upgrades (Score:5, 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?
Re:Windows Upgrades (Score:4, Funny)
I went from Vista to Win7 RC1 and didn't have any problems. Every time I see a comment like this, I think to myself "Why don't I ever have these problems?"
Well?
The great and powerful Windows has decided to eat your first born child, instead. Fortunately for you, you will remain a virgin your entire life and thus escape this terrible fate.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You can add them back... (Score:1, Funny)
Don't you mean WNU is Not Unix?
/ducks
Re:Sounds good to me (Score:4, Funny)
I am not sure what is so complicated about a music player that causes this.
This is simple - the Geniuses at apple haven't figured out this whole "multitasking UI" yet. "Determining gapless playback info" over a network drive is the perfect example of this. It seems to process files in groups of 10 or 20... and every time it starts a new batch, the UI locks up until it finishes (30s or so). Then you can move the mouse for a few seconds... until it starts the next batch.
It's not so noticeable on a local hard drive, but it's pretty damned hard to miss when you have 10k songs on the network. The concept of "worker thread" has not yet occurred to these people.
Re:Crappy Summary (Score:3, Funny)
It makes Slashdot look like it's run by a bunch of idiots
Look like?
(Note: I got rid of the "with an agenda" part after seeing their disastrous attempts to improve the site over the last year, and their stalwart refusal to read or fix bug reports.)
Re:Sounds good to me (Score:5, Funny)
There's an app for that.
Re:Windows Upgrades (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, and I hear UAC is better on 7, but if not just disable it. It takes about 5 clicks.
Re:So (Score:3, Funny)
If they didn't do this we would be reading about how the upgrade breaks competitor's software. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Yep. If you stab a man and leave him for dead, the headline reads "Stabbed a man and left for dead", if you stab a man and dump him in the river, the headline reads "Stabbed a man and dumped him in river"...You just can't win with the media.