RE: Windows ME, CE, and NT
- From: "Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS)" <Ted.Lisle@xxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:00:17 -0400
Same here. In fact, the much-beloved XP is not much more than NT with a
new hair style and makeup.
Ted
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Alex Stone
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 6:03 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Windows ME, CE, and NT
I used NT at work for years, and it worked pretty well as far as I could
tell.
Cheers
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
Of Farfar Carlson
Sent: 08 August 2010 21:29
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Windows ME, CE, and NT
Yes, and the letters in "NT" meant "Nice Try" or "Not Tested", if any of
us
will admit to knowing those versions.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Durber" <d.durber@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 11:37
Subject: Re: [Follow] Freedom Scientific introduces bugs intentionally!
Dave:
And do not forget, that the two letters in Windows M E came to be known
as
"mangled Edition", in the same way that the two letters in windows C E,
became known as "Crippled Edition".
Sincerely:
Dave durber
----- Original Message -----
From: "Farfar Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Follow] Freedom Scientific introduces bugs intentionally!
> Well, not to digress even more off topic, but I have to suggest that
> Microsoft's launch of Windows 7 was driven less by user complaints of
Vista
> than by the competition being offered by Apple. If Microsoft had a
> non-competitive market, we'd still be stuck with Windows ME.
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Armond" <armond1980@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 21:26
> Subject: [Follow] Freedom Scientific introduces bugs intentionally!
>
>
> Well, guys, whether or not JAWS has been or is tremendously helpful to
the
> visually impaired is simply beyond the point. No one can or should
deny
the
> fact that JAWS has been helping thousands of users in a variety of
context.
> However, that doesn't mean the follies of its developers should be
ignored.
> That would be like, say, having ignored Windows Vista's multitudinous
> problems and headaches simply because Microsoft has been developing
> different permutations of Windows for so long. On the other hand, what
we
> now call a positive experience, or simply a better experience, with
Windows
> 7 is the direct consequence of user complaints and taking into account
those
> glitches. Now who can deny the usefulness of Windows? On a similar
topic,
> isn't iPhone a revolutionary product with its full-fledged screen
reader,
> helping many visually impaired people all over the world with its
cornucopia
> of apps and functions? But this doesn't prevent users from complaining
about
> rather serious antenna issues with the 4th generation of iPhones.
> Likewise, when we simply state that Freedom Scientific is moving in
the
> wrong direction with its approach toward beta testing and bug
handling--and
> I don't want to mention the issue of the frequency of major upgrades
which
> unnecessarily kill SMA licenses, it doesn't mean that we excoriate the
whole
> history of JAWS from the HJ days forward. Rather, it's just meant to
keep
> both the user community and, hopefully, the developers aware of the
issues
> which have beleagured JAWS. As for this particular bug, why should
people
> buy extra language packs when Unicode support in combination with a
TTS
> engine can do the job? And this has been the case for some years and
is
> still the case with other screen readers which support Unicode. And,
last
> but not least, this has nothing to do with international sanctions
against
a
> particular country; rather, it's a totally technical issue as, say,
Arab
> countries aren't under any particular sanctions whatsoever. Imagine
having
> to purchase JAWS language packs from certain dealers in order to be
able
to
> read and write in Russian, Greek, and Polish.
>
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