Google Pack looks like a very useful software bundle. It also looks like one step nearer a complete desktop solution, which if I was Bill Gates would make me very fidgety indeed. Adobe, RealNetworks, Norton, Lavasoft - also a list of the few viable software companies Microsoft never gobbled up, sidling up to Google.
This, along with the My Google stealth programme, forcing me to merge my different Google accounts and tenaciously remembering my postcode / zipcode, smells like another step in the Google Gets Evil plan. Google hasn't been so good at integrating all its different cool products and ideas, or at giving each user a single view of all their Google options. That's changing, fast. Google is packing.
