The next move for screen readers should be touch. Apple already makes
use of this and I use it a lot. i go through twice as much email as i
can with jaws and lets not forget moving around on the computer with
just my finger and no spoken commands. The games that can be explored
by touch are going to be interesting. Just look what the mouse has
done. And that could of ben done sooner. The problem is those that
write the screen readers didn't think blind people could use a mouse.
At 02:18 AM 12/12/2011, you wrote:
Hi ?Charles,
Well, let me answer your question with a question. How do you expect
them to make money if they don't continually release upgrades?
It sounds to me like your question is along the lines of "if it ain't
broke don't fix it." While it might seem like you are paying money to
do the same old things with OS that takes more memory, more CPU power,
etc but I don't think you are paying attention to features or upgrades
that have been added to the operating system. Let's use Windows
Explorer as a simple example here.
Back in Windows 98 you could not burn cds or dvds through Windows
Explorer. Beginning with Windows XP you could burn data cds and music
cds directly from Windows Explorer. In Windows 7 you can burn data
cds, music cds, data dvds, and make video dvds by burning avi and mpg
files to dvd all through Windows Explorer. My point being that we can
clearly see new features like this being added to each successive
version of Windows Explorer. Its really not a case of the same thing
different version as a lot of other Windows programs have undergone a
similar evolution. Weather you use those new features or not is really
beside the point.
The way I read your message is Microsoft doesn't do anything new or
different from one version of Windows to the next accept make the OS
more bloated, more of a memory hog, and there is nothing to ever
recommend upgrading. I suppose some of what you say has some truth to
it, but as I said above I think its simply a case of not taking
advantage of the features and updates that are there.
For instance,in Windows 7 there are a number of gadgets, little
applets, you can dock to your desktop to monitor stocks and other real
time information. Well, obviously if you don't follow the stock market
and don't use the stock ticker gadget that would seem like a pretty
useless upgrade to you personally. However, I'm sure there are plenty
of people who buy and trade stocks online who happen to use that
little stock ticker gadget, and for them upgrading from Windows XP to
Windows 7 would have features they find useful in trading stocks.
My point being not everything Microsoft adds to the latest Windows
release will be important to you personally and it may even seem like
the same thing different version, but for someone like me its really
and truly not the same thing. There are a number of reasons a person
might choose to upgrade weather it is bug fixes, security fixes, a new
look and feel, more gadgets, additional features, whatever. It all
depends on how much or how little you get out of your computer to
begin with.
Cheers!
On 12/11/11, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote:
> Do they really have to continually upgrade the operating system and
> programs, making more power hogs, making us buy more powerful computers to
> do the same tasks we were previously doing but having to use more powerful
> processors and use more of the resources to do those tasks? Why can't they
> just leave well enough alone once they get a system that actually does what
> it's supposed to do?
>
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> "Security is not the absence of danger. It is the presence of the Lord."
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