What happens with fusion is that Windows becomes just another program on your Mac . So yes you can have Jaws and Kurzweil running within Fusion and then switch relatively instantly back to the Mac by just moving away from the Fusion Window. You can for example scan a document with Kurzweil save it, and then switch to the Mac to read it with, for example, Text Edit. Copying and pasting will also work. So you could scan with Kurzweil. Press control A to select all the scanned text, then control C to copy it. Now press control command and return to shift focus back to the Mac. Now you can open say Text Edit on the Mac and pressing command V will paste all the text you have copied from Kurzweil into Text Edit. The opposite is also true. I find that Nothing on Windows is as good as the Mac at reading PDF files. so you could read a PDF file on the Mac and then copy text from it into Microsoft Word running under Fusion . For me it really is a case of having the best of both worlds. In reality, for me, there are still some things that it is easier or cheaper to do under Windows where free software has a greater base. You can even put Windows programs on the Dock in the Mac. So you could have Kurzweil on your dock. Pressing return on Kurzweil will start Kurzweil in Windows . You can associate files on the Mac with windows programs if that is what you want. I do not do this but you could, for example, associate .doc files with the windows version of Word. So pressing command O to open the document in Mac finder will start Microsoft Word under fusion with the file already loaded.
The aim of fusion is to make Windows instantly integrated into the Mac and does a pretty good job of this. There are some steps with sharing hardware which is not too difficult to follow . There are a couple of caveats . Make sure you have security software, anti virus firewall etc running under windows. Although the Mac is a much more stable and safe environment the Fusion version of Windows is just as vulnerable to viruses as normal windows. You can set up fusion not to share files with the Mac if you are really worried about this but I do not go that far. I d, for convenience have all my document folders available on both Mac and fusion. Because of this you may want to back up your windows once you have everything set up as you want it. . Doing this on the Mac is ridiculously easy. You just copy the virtual Machine file with command c in finder and paste it somewhere as a Backup, say on an external drive. You can also have time Machine on the Mac do this automatically for you but I prefer to keep at least one known stable version of Windows backed up separately from time machine. If you do get a virus in windows then just delete the infected virtual machine file on the Mac using command delete. Now simply copy back your backed up version into the Virtual Machine folder to return to normal within a couple of minutes of the file copying across. Goodbye to all the Windows virus hassles. Also if you intend to use Fusion a lot I recommend you get as much physical Ram as you can for your Mac. Do not use apple for this as third party providers are much much cheaper. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Laurel Sent: 25 April 2012 04:58 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: running windows programs on mac Cool. If I used fusion, or boot camp, could I ever run JAWS on my mac, for example if I had to work with Kurzweil or microsoft or something that I can't really access as well with voice over? 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