Microsoft Multimedia Viewer

<h2 id="reception">Reception</h2>
<p>In a 1992 comparison of five multimedia authoring tools, including <a href="/facts/Authorware/j1wDpTND">Authorware</a> and <a href="/facts/Macromind_Director/N6a7Vltl">Macromind Director</a>, Jim Canning of <i>InfoWorld</i> awarded Viewer 1.0 the lowest score across the board. The journalist praised Viewer's full-text search ability and noted it's the only one reviewed which could be used to build <a href="/facts/Hypertext/qD8ozxSb">hypertext</a>. However, he criticized its lack of animation support and a "tedious and error-prone" word processor-based workflow.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a>
</p><p>While Viewer 1.0 was intended to be the main tool to build the original edition of Encarta, the encyclopedia's developers deemed it inadequate for the task. 34% of total Encarta code was added to build features which Viewer could not provide on its own, according to its developers’ accounts.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> A preliminary version of Viewer 2.0 was made available to the Encarta team before the new version of the authoring tool was fully completed. 
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<h3>Works cited</h3>
<ul><li>Pruitt, Stephen (1994). <a href="https://archive.org/details/microsoftmultime0000prui"><i>Microsoft Multimedia Viewer How-To CD: Create Exciting Multimedia with Video, Animation, Music, and Speech for Windows</i></a>. Corte Madera, CA: Waite Group Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9781878739605.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Moody, Fred (1995). <a href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1270724M/I_sing_the_body_electronic"><i>I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier</i></a>. Viking. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780670848751. <a href="/facts/OL_(identifier)/A13NLNNh">OL</a> <a href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1270724M">1270724M</a>.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Pruitt 1994, pp. 7–12. - Pruitt, Stephen (1994). Microsoft Multimedia Viewer How-To CD: Create Exciting Multimedia with Video, Animation, Music, and Speech for Windows. Corte Madera, CA: Waite Group Press. ISBN 9781878739605. <a href="https://archive.org/details/microsoftmultime0000prui" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/microsoftmultime0000prui</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Milter, Richard G.; Stinson, John E.; Gijselaers, Wim H. (2013). "Development of the "Bread and Butter" Multimedia Business Cases". Educational Innovation in Economics and Business III: Innovative Practices in Business Education. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9789401713887. <a href="9789401713887" target="_blank">9789401713887</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Moody 1995, p. 129. - Moody, Fred (1995). I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier. Viking. ISBN 9780670848751. OL 1270724M. <a href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1270724M/I_sing_the_body_electronic" target="_blank">https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1270724M/I_sing_the_body_electronic</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Clancy, Heather (1991-09-02). "Development Kit Due This Month — Microsoft to ship multimedia tools". Computer Reseller News. No. 436. CMP Publications, Inc. Microsoft is due to ship early this month the Multimedia Development Kit [...] The product will include Multimedia Viewer for building and distributing presentations that use sound, animation and video. <a href="/wiki/Computer_Reseller_News" target="_blank">/wiki/Computer_Reseller_News</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Simon, Barry (1994-10-25). "Learning to Use a Programmer's Gem". PCMag. p. 73. Retrieved 2022-04-20. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ZcHUWMdA1v4C&pg=PA73" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=ZcHUWMdA1v4C&pg=PA73</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>"Microsoft announced Multimedia Viewer...". Audio Week. Vol. 4, no. 38. Warren Publishing. 1992-09-28. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Canning, Jim (1992-03-09). Kaliczak, Anne (ed.). "Multimedia authoring tools". InfoWorld. pp. 80–93. Retrieved 2022-04-20. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7j0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA76" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=7j0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA76</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:8"><p>Moody 1995, pp. 39, 43. - Moody, Fred (1995). I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier. Viking. ISBN 9780670848751. OL 1270724M. <a href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1270724M/I_sing_the_body_electronic" target="_blank">https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1270724M/I_sing_the_body_electronic</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Microsoft Multimedia Viewer