Has it occurred to you that when Microsoft bundles those applications they get sued to pieces and end up paying billions in fines to the European antitrust extortionists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H regulators? If you approve of those verdicts and fines, then you cannot simultaneously criticize Microsoft for forcing you to install all those things. Approving of these fines means simply that we accept (or rather demand) the inconveniences they inflict.
Then let them at least provide a way to install and update those programs easily or efficiently - fetching them one by one is certainly not.
I definitely do not miss the days where I had to keep backups of basic softwares and drivers.
OpenOffice.org, anyone?
It's not a text editor. It is - as implied by the name - an office software suite, including a word processor, not a text editor.
One more reason to use Linux: "Your country's security depends on it."
How could that get modded "Funny"?!
Since 6 Jan 09 the performance of the MOD IT systems in a number of areas was affected by a virus. Immediate action was taken to isolate the problem to stop the virus from spreading. This meant that some people were without regular IT access (i.e. email, internet). There have been no infections detected on any networks with sensitive information.
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.