[access-uk] Re: *** SPAM *** FW: windows vista article
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 19:29:50 +0100
I have lopped off the original forwarded message to prevent a very long
message. I think the purely visual aspects of Vista could prove challenging
to those who want to work visually, but it'll be interesting to see how
magnification users fare. Maybe several lenses might be used simultaneously
to home-in on areas of interest to a user.
I don't know how many people in the work place will be adopting this very
busy, multi-information approach to their computing but it could well mark a
further demarcation between the way we use Windows and others use it.
Vince, no one can deny your adaptability in computing in past times, and
very interesting you had Gem which I never saw in action. Of course
standardisation on PC/MS DOS put an end to the near anarchy of
proliferation of operating systems at that time, which was, I think, crucial
for the PC industry to grow, whatever we might think of Microsoft.
I don't, by the way, underestimate the adaptability of many VI people; it
will be interesting though to see how things pan out.
From Ray
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Vince Thacker
Sent: 01 June 2006 17:58
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: *** SPAM *** FW: windows vista article
I seem to have read this before, or a similar alarmist account of what Vista
will be like. It can't be any worse than what's gone before, and we've all
survived up to now.
I started with an Amstrad 1512 all that time ago, and that came with at
least 3 different operating system, or things that looked like operating
systems. DOS, DosPlus, and Gem. What fun for the beginning computer user! If
you had the strength to lift the manual, it was all eventually explained,
but I'm glad I realised fairly soon that DOS was the thing. Just to make
things even clearer, the only training I was getting at the time was a night
class, where they used the BBC B. Quite logically, I wanted a computer at
home to get to grips with this new technology, and naturally bought a
Commodore Amiga.
Somehow I made good use of all these systems, and me only a simple country
lad. I'm glad I homed in on MS-DOS and made a big deal of learning all those
grim commands - I can still use it on my XP system to this day.
But the main point is that that I'm sure we'll be all right - just don't
panic! It does seem a lot of your familiar hotkeys will still work, even if
there is a new set as well. As there's only an early beta to play with, it's
hard to know what the final product will look like, so my reaction att the
moment is to chill and not worry about it until some time later.
Vince.
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