• Chris

  It would be nice if Windows Live was integrated in the Windows OS, but we have the stupid Europeans sticking their noses in in to an AMERICAN COMPANIES decisions. I mean really, with international security at an all time high the europeans are worried over so called “fair” tech products rather securing boarders and making sure the terrorists loose?

  • Anonymous

    I’m European and I don’t mind having Internet Explorer pre-installed without a choice screen (I like Internet Explorer and don’t need another browser). I would really like it if Windows Live Essentials came with all versions of Windows, but still had the Windows Live brand.

  • http://menthix.net/ Menthix

    Thanks for generalizing just about everything.

    It’s not stupid europeans who came with the monopoly claims. It was the european union. European citizens have little to no control over what they do. Haven’t there been multiple monopoly cases against Microsoft in the US too btw? Microsoft might be an american company originally, but it does business internationally (even has loads of offices throughout europe), it must deal with international laws like everyone else. Shocker: european companies doing business in the us deal with us laws and lawsuits too. Sometimes flat-out stupid laws and lawsuits, but I don’t blame “the americans” for that like it somehow is supported by the majority of its citizens.

    Our borders are fine btw, thanks for the concern though.

    • Chris

      Offended much?

      I guess you have a point, but I just don’t think your goverment should be worried over tech products that frankly 95% of them don’t even know how to use!

      • http://twitter.com/jamiet Jamie Thomson

        If you write something offensive don’t be surprised if people get offended.

        • Chris

          I’m not “surprised”

        • Me

          No, but you are an idiot.

        • Chris

          oh I know I am. Thank you for the complement though. Means a lot to me :)

  • alterSchw3de

    You should talk about things you don’t know anything about.

    It’s not the “stupid Europeans” who banned the IE, it’s a group of lobbyist and stupid politicians who have done that.

    And your complaining about “secure boarders and terrorism” is just ridiculous here in Europe we don’t have to fear terrorism because we don’t start war against each state just because we need more oil :)
    Haha nuclear weapons in iraq… of course! And why are the soldiers in Afghanistan are attacked with american weapons? Ah i forgot the USA had given them to the Taliban to fight the evil communism.. :)

    • Chris

      I guess you are offended. Now you know how it fells when you criticize the US.

• Chris

  See thats good, but your government thinks otherwise.

• Eric

  Chris made a valid point. Anti-trust laws are like most things, good in theory, but mostly flawed in real life. I don’t see the point of not allowing an anti-virus coming with windows… same thing with live or internet explorer. If some other company gets butthurt about it then it’s not like windows prevents you from downloading some other random program.. If you have a problem with what programs Microsoft allows on its operating system then guess what, make your own operating system.

  @Menthix you make a valid point as well.. but Chris was mostly right. Oh and the european borders are not fine. Europe has to crack down on immigration, especially from poorer countries and from islamic countries. Same thing with America, but not as bad. This is coming from a European born American btw.

• Bob

  Yay generalisations! Way to oversimplify the issue and drag in unrelated topics, Chris and Eric.

  Anyway, really? Wave 5 in 2012? And Microsoft seriously thinks they can keep these applications relevant with a two year release cycle?

  Also, I fully expected all this to be in wave 4. Aren’t they supposed to be “all in” with the cloud?

  • Chris

    Bob, it was on topic. Microsoft can’t integrate anything with out the EU sticking their noses in.

  • http://twitter.com/rameshthanikodi Ramesh Thanikodi

    uh-huh, and i’m pretty sure that Apple’s iLife is more relevant than Windows Live simply because it sounds cooler, right?

    • Anonymous

      I think ‘iLife’ sounds naff. Especially iLife ’11.

• JohnCz

  I’m interested to see how Microsoft expands on the pinned site capability. The current taskbar is sufficient for apps but once you start pinning websites..you start bumping up against taskbar space limitations. I can imagine a couple of approaches Microsoft might take to resolve this and unify with their mobile platform.

  • Chris

    I would love to have a category per pin deal. Such as have a pin GROUP of “Social networking”
    “News” “Life style” etc. .

    Same could be worked in to pin applications “Productivity” “Games” etc

    • http://twitter.com/rameshthanikodi Ramesh Thanikodi

      and then mac users would be like, “FIRST WINDOWS COPIED THE DOCK, NOW THEY ARE COPYING STACKS!!!1″

      • Chris

        Who cares.

        Sent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint!

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      • Anonymous

        Probably. But they couldn’t do anything about it – the taskbar in Windows 7 looks very different from the Dock in Mac OS X. Anyway, I think Mac OS X is moving away from the dock – in Mac OS X Lion they have app pages like on iOS.

    • Anonymous

      Nice idea.

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