[icon-discuss] Re: My first experience with file sharing
- From: Larry Skutchan <blindcooltech@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:53:11 -0400
Paul, please be assured that we did test file sharing with Vista. As you say,
we would not
think of releasing without testing. I will check into what is going on this
morning.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:16:48 -0700, Paul Henrichsen wrote:
>I am really upset.
>I'll admit that I haven't read all of my 400 messages yet.
>I am glad those with xp are having good experiences with file sharing.
>But those of us with vista so far have been left out in the cold.
>At the risk of getting kicked off this list, I am really upset.
>I talked with Michael at level star today. I think a lot of Michael.
>He's a
>pretty neat guy.
>But he said no testing had been done with vista with regards to file
>sharing
>and had no ideas of what to do other than turning on the guest account
>which
>did nothing to resolve the problem.
>Words like irresponsible and reprehensible come to mind.
>Vista has been out for well over a year now and no one on the
>development or
>beta teams thought to test the icon with vista?
>How can this be?
>Michael's thought was that perhaps people are afraid of it.
>Well, as of January 2009, you won't be able to buy a computer with XP.
>One would think that level star and/or APH would get with the program
>and
>use the current operating system in their tests of the icon, braille
>plus,
>or any other software for the computer or related to those devices..
>This is the current operating system; not windows xp; not windows 98,
>95 or
>DOS.
>Documentation should have been put out at the time of release for file
>sharing with xp as well as for vista.
>So, now, I am unable to use a feature on which I was counting.
>Now, I am forced to wait until someone on the development team gets
>their
>hands on a vista machine and solves this problem.
>I respectfully submit my name as an interested beta tester for all
>future
>releases, both hardware and software so at least someone with a vista
>machine will test these applications to make sure they are ready for the
>current operating system.
>
>Paul Henrichsen
><paulh52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
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