yowkee essential

I am looking at the list of softwares included in Google Pack — which Google claimed as a free collection of essential software. The first question pop into my mind: hmm…essential, why is there no Thunderbird ? And why Norton Antivirus 2005 (some more with 6 months subscription for updates)? Why isn’t it AVG Anti Virus Free Edition (free for personal use)? Or even ZoneAlarm ? Of course it’s understood they wouldn’t include Microsoft Anti-spyware.

Oh by the way, they don’t even include Google Talk, sounds valid since Google Talk isn’t as essential as MSN Messenger, Yahoo messenger or AIM yet…