I was just watching that airline crash show, and one of the crash investigators was quoted as saying something like: until something goes wrong, it's hard to fix it so it doesn't happen again. Having some gerkwad CEO not be able to get his email for a few hours, seems like a small price to pay for google to learn their lesson.

Probably not, if only for the fact that I would bet that there's some little disclaimer, somewhere inside the CD documentation or on the case liner saying that it's going to install the software and that by using the CD on a windows platform you, by default, agree to that action.