So I want a simple movie editor to clip 5secs off the beginning of a home movie - BUT to do this I have to sign up for an MS specific hotmail account, create a windows passport (I thought they had abandoned that?) get Windows messenger, windows photo viewer and be included in a whole bunch of MS specific social websites.
So I found a torrent of Movie maker 2.6 for XP - it works perfectly on Win7.
Most people find that this is actually helpful, though, because signing up for (or using, since the vast majority of folks already have one) a Live ID enables a bunch of convenient features like easily uploading your photos and videos (either to Microsoft's services or to Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, etc.) And most users who use Movie Maker also want to, for instance, organize their photos. Let's not forget that iLife also comes as a suite for a reason.
On the other hand, signing up for a new throwaway account just to trash Microsoft... yeah, that's classy.
(Usual disclosure: I work at Microsoft.)
Windows too often decides to do an update that will give me X extra stuff that I don't trust signing up for something like windows live just to get an included free movie player
It's a magnitude easier than installing anything on Windows: Click Link. DMG gets mounted on desktop. Click continue a couple times.
But really that's quaint, too. Install iMovie on the iPhone or iPad: Search App Store. Click Install. Enter Password.
Expecting users to do anything else at install time is expecting too much.
Also, no-install / portable apps are ever such a pleasant trend - just copy the files and run them.
definitely. def-in-it-ely Always say it like this as you type.