Quote Originally Posted by Freelancer View Post
This is basically the same thing that prevents Windows Movie Maker and such from coming packaged with Windows now. Honestly I'm all for streamlining the OS, it makes for quicker fresh installs, as a system builder that's something I love.
I installed Windows 7 in 15 minutes. Pulling out a few hundred MB of various programs (IE, WMP, WMM, etc.) isn't going to speed that up significantly. It's not like it has to compile each application during installation, it's a simple copy operation for the most part.

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