That's what I have. Google sometimes complains about it. I drive Google
crazy getting hymns and playing them over and over (good old Control R will
replay) so that I can learn them, since I'm the pianest at our little
church.
GIFT (God is forever true),
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mario" <mrb...@hotmail.com>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Clinging to XP.
Carolyn, Internet Explorer 8 is the last version that will work for XP.
On 6/12/2015 8:37 AM, Carolyn Arnold wrote:
The problem with clinging to XP is that if I continue to do so, eventually
I will not be able to get on the Internet. I keep getting warnings, but I
cannot update Internet Explorer with this system.
GIFT (God is forever true),
Carolyn
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS)"
<ted.li...@ky.gov>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Windows 10, Here’s what Microsoft should have
done instead
Doesn't sound like something I'd break my neck to acquire. That's why so
many folks are still desperately clinging to XP like a drowning man
holding a rope. That's why my builder and I agreed to go with Windows 7
as late as December, 2013. When it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Ted
-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Trish
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 10:27 AM
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Subject: Windows 10, Here’s what Microsoft should have done instead
Windows 10, Here’s what Microsoft should have done instead
a.. By David Cardinal on June 9 2015 from the
b.. Extreme Tech Staff
c.. 'Document source Link:
d..
e..
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/207780-windows-10-heres-what-microsoft-should-have-done-instead?mailing_id=1276983&mailing=ExtremeTech&mailingID=F98C71CE61AECF34AC8B64A964276FEA
f..
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· Windows 10 is a well-meaning effort by Microsoft to mollify
Windows 8 haters and coax Windows 7 loyalists to upgrade — all while
stubbornly sticking to its goal of a single OS for every possible
platform. And by framing the problem that way, Microsoft has given itself
a nearly impossible task.
· To the company’s credit, each new build lurches closer to being
usable, although with new bugs every time, it is difficult to evaluate how
smooth the final release version will be. Best case: It may earn the
grudging acceptance of Windows 7 users who refuse to move to Windows 8.
And part of that acceptance will come not from sudden enthusiasm for a new
way of interacting with the desktop, but from a desire to take advantage
of the clear core benefits Windows 10 provides in performance, security,
administration, and memory usage over Windows 7 and even Windows 8.
· So why is it so hard to convince users to move to a brand-new,
free, feature-packed, more efficient OS?
·
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/205320-microsoft-windows-10-will-be-the-last-version-of-windows
·
· Apple does it all the time. Simply put, because Microsoft didn’t
build Windows 8 or Windows 10 for Windows users. It built them to further
its own business strategy of using the power of the once-ubiquitous
Windows platform to extend its dominance into the rapidly growing mobile
space. The result is an OS whose features are now flipping and flopping
with each new build — as Microsoft tries to fix problems of its own
creation.
· Imagine how good a desktop OS Windows 10 could have been
· What if instead, after realizing what a terrible mistake Windows
8 was, Microsoft had made the truly brave decision to come clean and
change its strategy? If Windows 10 had been designed from the beginning to
be the best possible desktop OS, and the thousands of developer years
spent trying to make it everything to everyone were instead spent
providing services and applications for the mobile OS platforms people
actually want? If in tandem Microsoft was willing to let go of its sub-3%
market share in mobile, it could also have spent the cash it used to buy
Nokia to build out its cross-platform services offerings instead. We could
have had a really excellent desktop OS — worth paying for —
·
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/201601-microsoft-desperately-wants-you-to-move-to-windows-10
·
· and great integration with the leading mobile platforms.
· Certainly Microsoft has woken up to providing competitive
versions of its applications on Android and iOS. But imagine how much
further along it would have been if it had put real work into the effort
starting years ago. Perhaps we wouldn’t have to use third-party utilities
to sync our information between Google and Outlook, for example. Or
OneNote might have supported syncing on Android during the first several
years it was available, instead of only recently. Pick any Microsoft
desktop technology you access from your iOS or Android device and you can
come up with a list of features that would make it much more useful.
·
· It’s not like there isn’t anything to fix in Windows
· Anyone who thinks Microsoft didn’t focus on desktop users as it
evolved Windows 8 and 10 because its desktop OS has “no need for
improvement” hasn’t spent enough time wrestling with the inscrutable hex
error codes from Windows Update, or debugging driver version mismatches,
or finding information they’re sure is somewhere on their disk. While
Windows 10 isn’t final, judging by the builds so far, all of those
problems are still there. Even support for high-resolution displays is
still spotty. Windows 10 adds some new Zoom options, but there is still no
serious scalable-font solution that works across the full range of
possible displays.
· As a good example of how this alternate direction would have
worked, let’s look at the Control Panel. No one doubts that it is an old,
crufty system for managing a computer. A desktop-focused OS project would
have overhauled it completely while preserving its functionality. Instead,
Microsoft seems determined to replace it in bits and pieces with new
“touch-friendly” settings that aren’t much more intuitive, and that become
even more frustrating when you need to go back to the old system for
pieces that are still missing. Windows 10 is supposed to address this
problem, but we’re less than two months from shipment and Settings are
still far from being either intuitive or finished.
· Tablet mode and Continuum are also inventions seeking to solve a
problem Microsoft has invented for itself. For the few of us who actually
own and use a Surface Tablet mode, it’s sort of a good thing. (I love that
I can both taken written notes and run Outlook on my SP3, but with the
addition of desktop apps to Android, I’m not sure how many others will see
the need to spend that kind of money for basic productivity.) It’s good
because it is better than Windows 8, where often the touch keyboard wouldn’t
pop up when needed, and icons could be hard to finger.
· It’s still only sort of good, though, because it’s confusing and
forces the user to have one more thing to think about. Somehow iPads and
Android tablets seem to easily survive the addition of a keyboard without
the need for an entire special OS mode. Like many of the other new
features in Windows 10, it seems like a “throw it against the wall and
hope it sticks” attempt to solve a user pain point — not a
from-the-ground-up technology architected to support the broad range of
devices that can now run Windows.
·
· Windows 10 internals are actually pretty impressive
· There is a lot to like about Windows 10 — in addition to having
the best kernel Windows has ever had. Edge (aka Spartan) is promising
(although it too is only a prototype version, and certainly could have
been shipped separately). Cortana might be useful, but is so limited and
buggy in the current builds that it is hard to tell. If it doesn’t get
sorted out by July, Microsoft risks taking yet another step backwards in
desktop search functionality, which would be a shame. Virtual desktops are
a nice feature, although hardly groundbreaking.
· The included apps are certainly way ahead of the ones Microsoft
shipped with Windows 8, but Microsoft has had many excellent desktop apps
over the years — including the now-dead Windows Media Center, LiveWriter,
and MovieMaker. It is the company’s own fault that it feels the need to
start over time and again. On the tablet side, if Microsoft is serious
about usability, it should be providing a better touch keyboard — one that
includes swipe-through typing, for example. I also wish the company had
finally fixed Windows Update. Mobile users won’t put up with the way it
works now — they are spoiled by seamless OTAs from Apple and even many
Android vendors.
· Perhaps the ultimate warning sign about Windows 10 for me is
that for many, its positioning is summed up as being “no worse than the
six-year-old Windows 7, while adding support for tablets and phones.” That
sounds pretty silly, but maybe not far from the truth. I run a Windows 7
desktop for some of my business-critical applications right next to a
couple of Windows 8.1 machines and a couple of Windows 10 machines. I don’t
really feel any less productive when I’m on the Windows 7 machine, and I
can’t imagine that I’ll upgrade it to Windows 10 and risk something
breaking.
· Tablets are certainly a different story. I’ve already put
Windows 10 on almost all my Windows tablets, and suspect most of the small
number of Windows tablet users will also. Unfortunately for Microsoft,
Windows tablets are a relatively small market, and may never become
mainstream.
· Laptops are the most interesting case. While each version of
Windows adds new power management features, that may not be enough to get
laptop users to upgrade. For example, Microsoft keeps changing the WiFi
settings interface, and for many of us, the new version is lame compared
to the more powerful one that preceded it. Engineering laptops still ship
primarily with Windows 7, and I don’t see anything about Windows 10
changing that. Mainstream laptops will get dragged along onto Windows 10
because of the Microsoft marketing machine, but I don’t know how many
current laptop users will bother to take advantage of the free upgrade. No
doubt that is part of why Microsoft is inflicting its Windows 10 adware on
the already confusing Windows Update process.
· At this point the die is cast, and we’ll need to live with
whatever we get on July 29th — or stay put and hope the little
Get-Windows-10 nagware goes away.
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