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-----Original Message----- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Josh Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 4:46 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users vinux handles excel documents just fine with orca. and I can even use eloquence and cepstral voices with it if I wish. sent from my vinux4 linux laptop On 09/11/2013 03:52 PM, Christina wrote: > The inability to access Excel and other Office documents easily is the > reason I haven't seriously considered moving to a Mac as well. > That, and the cost of getting a new computer. > Christina > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 3:48 PM > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users > > I'll think about that. > > For me, I just don't see why! I should! upgrade other than to please > microsoft's expanding pockets, (and in fairness microsoft should've included > > proppper backwards compatibility, after all it's not as if they don't have > the money for developement). > > In fairness I'd need to investigate the bennifits of mac as an os, though > having been quite impressed with vo's performance on the iphone I do know > usage won't be as problematic as it would be with the irritating post xp > interface. > > The only thing that puts me off mac is the stupidity with file management > for audio files, (I've found a way to get folder structures on the iphone > using playlists but it's not what I'd want all the time, and the fact that I > > need something that opens office and rtf documents. > > I'd also be concerned that if, as people keep claiming newer windows > versions have upgraded this, latest that and more numbers in the other > someone would! be more likely to make something I wanted to do on windows > than on mac, (particularly since I already have access to a lot of mac stuff > > on ios). > > All the best, > > Dark. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 8:36 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users > > >> Hi Dark, >> >> Yes, you can run a Windows XP virtual machine on Mac. You can get >> VMWare Workstation to run XP in a virtual machine, or you can use Boot >> Camp to setup a multiboot with XP if you want to go that way for >> running your old Windows apps and games. Either way the Mac allows you >> to keep your old Windos OS while running the very latest version of >> Mac OS and apps. >> >> P.S. >> >> FYI. It is Linux, L i n u x, not Lynux, L y n u x. >> >> Cheers! >> >> On 9/11/13, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: >>> That is likely what I will end up doing eventually, ---- can you run an >>> xp >>> vm on a mac? >>> >>> I see myself more likely to go with mac than lynux, since mac has more >>> options for access etc than windows, unless something changes. >>> >>> All the best, >>> >>> Dark. >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. >> > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > . > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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