> Hello? quicktime movie in powerpoint? Do you never give presentations > which need animations? Engineering shops need this. I'm sorry, I 'm just a student. And I do presentations, but never so sophisticated.
> DivX could also be useful in this regard, and I am sure there are > business applications for being able to play encrypted DVDs you own > (training material). You can read this on linux. You canread quick time, you can read real player and flash. You can even read dvd. But the point is to develop a opensource dvd player is not possible, thanks to movie maker. But what about a closed source dvd player, a commercial one. There is no freeware dvd player on windows, even if everyone use cracked ones. So , what is missing ? A office suite ? There is good ones, and not only opensource. Applixware, Hancom office, all theses. You can read proprietary format, thanks to commercial plugins. Of course, you must pay, but, Microsft Office, Photoshop aren't freeware.... And of course, it may cost more to have a trained Unix sysadmin, but someone who use windows in order to underpay his admin is stupid. > If business didn't need multimedia, Windows Media player wouldn't be in > Windows 2000 Pro. Maybe because Microsoft tried to make his software become standard, so, what is the point of not giving WMP on Windows 2000, if it is avaliable on the other versions. W9x software runs on W2000, no ? don't ned any recompilation, i think... And, the same idea could applies to windows95 and personal Web server. Even if it not installed by default, Microsoft ships a webserver with windows 9x. Now, i don't think that a home user needs a web server, especially this one... So, it is not because it is shiped by default that there is a strong need. Winmine.exe and sol.exe are shipped with every versions of windows, don't they they are so important for business. Mick
