Windows Live Installer vs. Google Pack

Windows Live Installer is set to go against Google Pack this week. Back at the end of June Microsoft announced through the voice of Chris Jones, corporate vice president, Windows Live Experience Program Management, that its cloud operating system evolving under the Windows Live brand umbrella was moving into the new phase. Lagging well behind Internet rival Google in the area of serving web-based applications, Microsoft is of course leveraging its operating system monopoly in order to push the Windows Live set of online products and services.
And according to the NY Times, Microsoft is getting ready to rain on Google’s parade this very week. The Redmond company will unveil its Windows Live Installer, a product designed to be an equivalent of the Mountain View’s search giant Google Pack. With the mention that while the Google Pack is a bundle of both proprietary and third-party online software and services, Microsoft’s Windows Live Installer will deliver exclusively the company’s collection of offerings.
Microsoft has failed to officially confirm the delivery of the Windows Live Installer, but it is clearly heading into a direction that will permit it to bridge the Windows operating system, forecasted to hit an install base of over one billion by mid-2008, with its Windows Live cloud operating system. Following the availability of the Windows Live Installer users will have a single point access to downloads such as Windows Live OneCare, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Photo Gallery but also to services such as Windows Live Hotmail and SkyDrive.
In contrast, Google desktop is already offering for download a set of free applications including Google Earth, Google Desktop, Norton Security Scan, Firefox with Google Toolbar, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Toolbar for IE, Spyware Doctor, Picasa, Google Talk and StarOffice, Sun’s alternative to OpenOffice and Microsoft’s Office System.

source- softpedia