>> Wouldn't you need a video camera to do that?
> 
> Depends on what quality you require.  At the low end just use your 
> mobile phone.

Oh yes, how silly of me. I keep forgetting that these days telephones 
think they're video cameras...

>> Is there a codec on Earth that would make a video small enough to send 
>> by email?
> 
> Doesn't matter for us as most of our videos are pretty short (eg just 5 
> or 10 seconds), but companies usually have FTP sites or web-based 
> document managers for larger files that can be used.

Mmm, true.

>> Technically yes. Anything that involves a computer but doesn't make 
>> the company money is strictly speaking prohibited.
> 
> Hehe, well you could argue that taking a break to play minesweeper is 
> making the company money because you will work more efficiently 
> afterwards :-)

I'll have to remember that one! :-D

>> It's just that I would have thought they would make a version of 
>> Windows taylored to business use without anybody needing to spend 
>> hours reconfiguring it.
> 
> The thing is though, any company with more than a handful of employees 
> is going to want to customise it somehow because every company is 
> different.  I highly suspect that MS has made the defaults suitable for 
> very very small businesses, knowing full well that any large companies 
> will just totally reconfigure everything before a user gets anywhere 
> near the login prompt.

That's just it though. You'd think they would make it so a small 
business gets something that Just Works right out of the box. But (for 
example) having network file sharing disabled by default doesn't seem 
very smart from that PoV.

> Because they don't expect anyone in a business setting to go through 
> that manually, and they couldn't be bothered to actively change it for 
> the few business people who see it.

Yeah, I guess that's it. Why build a business edition when a large 
business can customise it themselves?

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