Discussion around the unbundling of IE in Europe on W7 gave me an idea to improve the lot of the 'average user' and the ecosystem thereby.
Suppose that Secunia's PSI was modified slightly to suggest and support the installation of a basic set of applications for a new PC. Offering say:
IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox
AVG, MSE, ...
Flash
Silverlight
JRE
Acrobat Redaer, Foxit, ...
You know - the usual suspects - and not much more to keep it simple.
So when you first boot up your new PC, PSI offers to install the basic applications of your choice (note YOUR choice). Not only does this guide the average user ... it leaves PSI running in the background to prod him about application updates (switching off prodding can of course be selected).
In other words M$ Update and PSI complement each other to keep systems current.
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