[access-uk] Re: Windows 7 ?

  • From: "Dave Taylor" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:51:43 +0100

In short, yes. We won't be able to go out alone soon at this rate, or live 
alone in a few years!


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From: "Marie Baisez" <baisez.marie@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:24 PM
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Windows 7 ?

agreed, I went into a public toilet in an airport recently and,when I
couldn't find the button to flush it, I was told there was a place, totally
unmarked so I could feel it where you had
 to wave.
I smiled at the time but thought, whatever next? will we have to wave at a
lift to call it soon?
Marie----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Taylor" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:12 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Windows 7 ?


> More worrying is the use of it on remote controls etc. I keep warning
> people
> we won't be able to live independently for long unless something is done!
> Just think, we might not be able to use a radio soon!
>
>
>
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> From: "Vanja Sudar" <vanja@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:49 PM
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Windows 7 ?
>
> And to bring accessibility in to this, I wonder is this a bad news for
> those
> of us who are blind or VI? I know it's very early days now, but there are
> questions to be raised here. For example: would this touch screen
> interface
> be possible to be disabled? Would some features only be available if you
> use
> touch screen?
> Vanja
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Derek Hornby" <derek.hornby_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Access-Uk@Freelists. Org" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 12:29 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Windows 7 ?
>
>
>> Hi all
>> I thought the floowing would be of interest here.
>> Sorry  rather  long.
>>
>> Touch and go for the new Windows system:
>> By Jonathan Richards
>> The Times 29 May 2008
>>
>> Microsoft is signalling the end of the mouse with its latest
>> operating system, which aims to build on the success of its rival
>> Apple's iPhone touch screen.
>>
>> Windows 7 will allow PC users to touch, rather than point and click,
>> in a move which indicates that the world's most influential software
>> company believes that the days of the keyboard-mouse combination are
>> coming to an end. But some critics claim that Microsoft is a long way
>> from replacing what has been the dominant human-computer interface
>> since its invention by Xerox researchers in the 1970s.
>>
>> It is unclear how willing office workers or home users are to abandon
>> hard-won typing skills and lean forward to start manipulating images
>> on a large computer screen.
>>
>> Windows 7 -which is not due to be released until 2010 -represents the
>> latest in a long line of attempts by Microsoft to catch up with the
>> technical lead established by Apple -though the software giant
>> usually overhauls its rival in the end.
>>
>> "The way you interact with the system will change dramatically," Bill
>> Gates, Microsoft's billionaire chairman, said at a conference in
>> California this week. "Today, almost all the interaction is
>> keyboard-mouse." He indicated that he expected users to talk and use
>> a pen to interact with their computers as well as caress them.
>>
>> But Roberta Cozza, an analyst at Gartner, said: "With mobiles, which
>> you hold in your hand, touch can make things easier -you get to the
>> phone's functions faster, whereas with a PC you'd have to lift your
>> arm every time, and with a screen that's 17 inches wide that's going
>> to become more difficult."
>>
>> Although Microsoft is loath publicly to acknowledge the success of
>> its competitors, except when it is trying to buy them, it is clearly
>> worried about the popularity of the touch-screen interface on a
>> string of handheld devices, ranging from sat-navs to iPhones. A
>> touch-screen BlackBerry is expected this year.
>>
>> "Touch-enabled surfaces are popping up everywhere, including
>> cellphones, remote controls, GPS devices, and more," Chris Flores, a
>> director on the Windows Client team at Microsoft, said.
>>
>> Microsoft is in need of a lift after the success of the Apple iPod
>> and other handheld technologies, the losing battle that it continues
>> to fight with Google over control of the internet, and the lacklustre
>> release of Vista, the operating system released last year.
>>
>> Nevertheless, Windows remains the dominant desktop computer standard,
>> and Microsoft could not resist a swipe at its rival.
>>
>> Asked whether Microsoft or Apple would be first to market with
>> touchscreen computer software for desktop computers, Steve Ballmer,
>> Microsoft's chief executive, suggested that the two companies were
>> not in direct competition.
>>
>> "We'll sell 290 million PCs, and Apple will sell 10 million PCs.
>> Steve (Jobs, Apple's chief executive) can flip his hand and sell a
>> few models -they're fantastically successful and so are we, but it's
>> a different job."
>>
>> This month, the company was forced to abandon a $47.5 billion bid to
>> acquire Yahoo!, the internet portal, in an attempt to wrest control
>> of the internet from the search-engine giant Google. That collapsed
>> because it could not agree a price, although Yahoo! was reluctant to
>> be bought by a company seen as anathema to the entrepreneurial
>> creativity of Silicon Valley.
>>
>> Meanwhile, most of its customers -including businesses -have not
>> upgraded their computers to Vista. The majority of the 140 million
>> copies Microsoft says that it has shipped so far have been sold
>> bundled with new machines. A video of Windows 7 on Microsoft's
>> website shows the technology being used to spin an on-screen globe,
>> zoom in on a map, and scroll through menu lists in a gentle, flicking
>> motion.
>>
>> Yet, despite the slick demonstration, it is not clear that computer
>> makers are clamouring to follow the Windows 7 ideal. Dell, the
>> second-largest PC manufacturer, said that "multi-touch" was
>> "interesting", but declined to say whether it would release a
>> touchscreen laptop in time for January 2010, when Microsoft said it
>> expected Windows 7 to be introduced.
>>
>> LOOKING BACK
>>
>> * Windows 3.0 (1990)
>>
>> Microsoft's first succesful attempt at a graphical user interface
>> (GUI). Still inferior to the look and feel of Apple's Macintosh
>> system, but PCs sold better than its overpriced rival. The tiled
>> windows are still fondly remembered
>>
>> * Windows 95
>>
>> Microsoft finally caught up with Apple, launching an operating system
>> with an easy-to-use interface and natural language file names. Bill
>> Gates persuaded Mick Jagger to allow the use of Start Me Up on its
>> launch
>>
>> * Windows XP (2001)
>>
>> After a succession of upgrades to Windows 95, XP came in. It was more
>> stable than the 95 family and sold well, but had security flaws,
>> exposed by the Sobig virus, which generated e-mails that filled
>> in-boxes worldwide
>>
>> * Windows Vista (2007)
>>
>> Software demands meant that only higher-end computers could run the
>> system adequately. Concerns on compatibility held back uptake. Sold
>> 20million in first month. Bill Gates claimed sales of 100million by
>> Jan 2008
>>
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