> It always surprised me that M$ didn't make some sort of "business" version 
> of Windows that is appropriate for business use. I mean, look at Windows 
> XP Professional. It comes with such unecessary items as Windows Media 
> Player

Just because your company doesn't have any use for WMP doesn't mean that no 
company does.  All the companies I work with quite often send out video 
clips to illustrate certain problems they are having, it's much faster and 
cheaper than travelling to another country or shipping the equipment to 
another country.

> and Windows Movie Maker

Never had an opportunity to use it yet personally, but why not include it? 
The executable is only 4MB or something, it's not beyond the realms of 
possibility that someone might want to use it to make a simple compilation 
of videos, or to trim/recompress a single video before emailing.

> , not to mention Freecell and Minesweeper.

I see several people playing minesweeper during their lunch break, is that 
banned where you work?

> I understand that there *is* a seperate business edition of Vista, so 
> maybe they got it right this time?

I have the business version of Vista, and no it didn't have any games 
installed, but I easily fixed that by going to Add/Remove windows components 
and adding them.  And yes it also has Windows Movie Maker and WMP installed 
by default too.

You do realise you can make custom installs of Windows, if you don't want 
any of your employees to use WMP, Windows MM, or play any games then you can 
easily just not install them.  And it's quite straightforward to uninstall 
them on existing installations and prevent them being installed again. 
Preventing them bringing them in on a USB stick or downloading them might be 
trickier though.

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