And, the one thing with Win 7 that is great is that search box that comes up when you hit the windows key. To me, that alone is a seller for Win 7
Al -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Dan Rossi Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 10:48 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Switching From XP To Windows7 I am always surprised at people's need to stick to the older technology. I am no means an early adopter. Especially on my work computer, I need to move slowly so that I don't impact my performance too drastically, but why would anyone stick with IE 6 I can't imagine. It is riddled with security holes and hasn't been patched in years. The fact that it works with JAWS 9 and Windows XP doesn't really encourage me. I mean, didn't JAWS 3.51 work well with IE 5 and Windows 95? Or some other combination there of? Just because a particular combination worked 8 years ago, doesn't make it the better choice. I didn't particularly like Windows 7 the first couple of months that I worked with it, but now it works just fine for me, I even like parts of it better than Windows XP. Eventually, you have to upgrade or lose out on many things. The longer you wait to upgrade, the harder it becomes because the more things change from what you know. Fewer, smaller incremental changes are usually easier than one huge monumental change. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Senior Oracle Database Administrator Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu Tel: (412) 268-9081 For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
