I tried the Office 2010 Home and Small Business "Click to run" edition. I
wanted to try Excel and Word. The "Click to run" edition is a Microsoft
experiment in rolling out a virtualized version of Office. It does not get
installed in the typical way! When you click on the icon, instead of
installing, it downloads and runs the application quickly and continues to
download the application while it is being used. With the exception of
Outlook, it will not interfere with other versions of Office installed on
the computer.
I m intrigued by the technology, but was not impressed by it's operation! I
prefer to have these types of applications permanently installed locally for
performance reasons. I could understand this technology for large
corporation deployment over local networks, which is where I think it was
derived. For some reason, Microsoft feels like it needs to respond to
working in the cloud like Google Apps.
In addition to severe stability problems with the "Click to run"
virtualization, I found accessibility issues as well! Excel was completely
inaccessible with JAWS 11! JAWS could not even move through the grid or
respond when editing a cell! It could not read any of the data. Perhaps
Microsoft made major changes to the screen layout? In the case of Excel,
waiting for JAWS 12 is absolutely necessary. I did not have the same issues
with Word, but could rarely open a document without a fatal error because of
the virtualization. Therefore, I did not have a chance to use it very much.
Don Marang
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From: "Holger Fiallo" <holgerfia...@comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:57 PM
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Microsoft office 2010 and jaws
Has anyone tested the beta version of office 2010 with jaws 11. I would
like to test but I want to see if anyone is doing so and whether is a good
idea or I need to wait for jaws 12 to do so.
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