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[senit] Voice Comments in Word - Vista Issues

Sandra ONeill sandra.oneill at education.ed.ac.uk
Wed Jul 9 11:54:28 BST 2008

Article: [senit] Voice Comments in Word - Vista Issues

senit at lists.becta.org.uk writes:
<The Vista Sound Recorder can now only be  
<used to record a sound - there is no edit or playback feature, making  
<it pretty useless. [a Microsoft employee explained this by saying  
<that the "Sound Recorder for Vista was setup to keep people from  
<being able to reprocess other people's (possibly copyright/protected)  
<sound files using a MS provided applet (potential liability?) and  
<you're right, it doesn't include some of the editing features of the  
<old WinXP sound recorder".

Allan, if that is the case how come the sound recorder option works fine
inVista/ Powerpoint 2007?
Surely the same reasoning should apply?

Sandra

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