On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Friday 15 November 2002 05:36 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > > If business didn't need multimedia, Windows Media player wouldn't be in > > Windows 2000 Pro. > > I agreed with the rest of your post, but `Microsoft thinks you need a thing' > is far from sufficient justification for `businesses need this thing'. Your > logic is bass-ackwards, as they say, even if your conclusion is more or less > valid. >
Maybe I should have posed it differently, more like "If businesses didn't need multimedia, they wouldn't install Media Player on windows 2000 professional (since getting MP to work right all the time is a mission)". Anyway, i think the point that multimedia stuff is critical has been made. FYI, it's mostly for the Engineering staff that we have to ensure Media Player and related multi-media stuff works, and linux is often targeted at engineering activities (and hopefully we will have more engineers running linux here soon). Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
