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Some of the bundled Windows software does have some use, IMO...

-The file explorer. It's far from perfect but it does the job, especially when tweaked with Classic Shell to bring back the up button. And unlike the alternatives, it's free. Still a shadow of its former XP self, though, in my opinion.
-Paint did save my life from time to time when I couldn't install something else (locked-up PC).
-MSconfig and the "management console" (or whatever it's called in English) are great for turning off bloatware when removing them through a fresh install is not an option.
-While Notepad is pretty bad, Windows 7's Wordpad is decent. As an example, it does properly open text files from all OSs. It can also offer Abiword-like basic formatted text editing (which is sadly enough for many people, who have never learned how to get the most of a word processor).
-And the basic photo viewer and scanning tool do their job, sometimes better than the manufacturer-provided bloatware for the latter.

Edited 2012-07-14 12:42 UTC

yes they have uses. I use them too, sideshows that they are. and the biggest feature of windows 8 is a new bunch of microsoft sideshows.

I use IE... to download Firefox and Linux/Haiku isos.

I use cmd... if I don't have PuTTY installed and need telnet.

I use Media player on Windows, It works well for what it does. Better than iTunes on Windows, and it's already there.

I've still not found something better than Media Monkey for media management on Windows. Worth looking at if you haven't already.

Itunes on osX is still barely better than eye lids full of pencil shavings but at least the osX native build quality offers improvements over the Windows build. (if one has limited themselves with an Ithingy)

It's called "broken mode".

Haha.