Google's Software Pack Announced and Available

You can download it here: http://pack.google.com

Contents:

* Adobe Reader 7
* Ad-Aware SE Personal
* GalleryPlayer HD Images
* Google Desktop
* Google Earth
* Google Pack Screensaver
* Google Talk
* Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer
* Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar
* Norton AntiVirus 2005 Special Edition
* Picasa
* RealPlayer
* Trillian

My thoughts:

> Everyone who is net-savvy enough to hear of this pack and download it will already have Acrobat Reader

> I gave up on RealPlayer a long time ago. I choose alternatives to Microsoft whenever possible, but RealPlayer has always seemed to be bloated and ugly to me

> Norton Antivirus comes with a 6-month subscription for free - that's excellent, but then you have to pay, so having it as a part of a "free" package is a bit misleading. They could have chosen anti-virus software that was genuinely free...

> I think a package of purely Google products (or at least third-party products branded as Google) would have been a better move