[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT Windows 2007! save me!!! and great dummies site
- From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:27:09 -0400
Lissi,
Windows Vista, the successor to Windows XP, is scheduled to be released in
early 2007. Unlike last time, both major screen reader manufacturers
project that their products will be ready to support the new operating
system from Microsoft before the OS is released. There is no hurry,
however, as E pointed out, to upgrade your computer to the new OS. Unless
you specifically are looking for the features provided under Windows Vista,
you are not required to upgrade.
Regards,
Pratik
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT Windows 2007! save me!!! and great dummies site
Dear Volunteer friends,
Carrie, you sent us a Dummies link a few months ago. It is a very handy
reference site! Thank you so much!
Everyone, Last night while investigating the Dummies link Carrie sent us, I
happened upon news that is likely to aggravate my insomnia. I may never
Sleep again. We're getting a new Windows in 2007! I forgot the new, snappy,
name to go with it, but aside from upgrading...at some point...we'll all be
waiting for our various adaptive softwares to catch up, and then wait for
the computer wise on this list to figure it out and explain it to those of
us who wrangle with computers and bottom out, and then it will be learning
new ways of doing what needs to be done to validate!
I know improvements are a good thing, but they stretch my learning curve to
a u shape...in other words from the shaky hilltop where I am now back to the
valley of the ignorant!
Has anyone paid attention to the projected update? There's a print book
which discusses what to expect advertised on the Dummies site.
Carrie's help goes so far beyond scanning and validating! She told us about
the site months ago, but I finally checked it last night and it is a good
source of free useful info via the articles on a given topic you search.
Last night I sent links to articles about diabetes and a Dummy reference on
laptops you can purchase to 2 different sighted friends who love the new
site.
Don't be fooled by the name Dummies. The information in the Dummy books
seems generally sound, and not at all superficial. It's just organized in a
quick scan and user friendly way.It's like a bus tour of a new city. In the
days after, you go back to the places that interested you to learn more. If
a subject is relatively new to you, you read the Dummies book and can always
follow up with further reading from other sources to go deeper.
In case you didn't catch it when Carrie posted it to tell us there were over
30 articles about dogs, the URL
http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/
To use the search, I had to enter on forms mode, type in my search and then
tab back with shift tab to click on the graphic to start the search. That
may not be how it works for you, but I'm sharing my experience in case it
helps.
Always with love,
Lissi
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