Is Windows 7 slimming down to speed up (development)?
BetaNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft is making plans to drop an assortment of e-mail and media-editing tools from the next version of Windows, concentrating instead on those programs' Windows Live analogues.
] The Engineering Windows 7 blog, run by engineering team leaders Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan, frames the forthcoming OS as an "ecosystem" comprised of PC and hardware manufacturers, developers, users, and enthusiasts. Going extinct from that ecosystem will be the following: Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Calendar, Windows Contacts, and Windows Movie Maker.