Has anyone tested MS's own VMWare product?
It's called Microsoft Virtual PC FWIW.
It's free, and the configuration wizard etc. seem pretty usable, but will
have to either try find a valid VPC image that's already had an OS
installed, or maybe get a sighted person to try help me, for example,
install something like Vinux, or an older MS Os so I can see if I can, for
example, try out their screenreader utilisation, but I think it should work
since in my first test run, I could tell it the new VPC I was configuring
would think it had a sound blaster card etc.
Anyway, here's the details/download page:
http://www.microsoft.com:80/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=28C97D22-6EB8-4A09-A7F7-F6C7A1F000B5&displaylang=en
FWIW, once I start up my virtual pc machine, I do need to use the jaws
cursor to get to some of the activity menus, but not really a problem.
Ok, while typing this message, I realised I was being stoopid, so I started
the VPC, and told it to mount the Vinux live CD image and then told it to
restart/reboot, and it did seem to be virtually booting up from the CD image
since I heard the sound prompt to hit enter to make it start running in live
mode, so will have to test it a bit more - LOL!
For those who don't know, Vinux is a modified/tweaked version of Ubuntu
linux that automatically makes things like the Orca screenreader start, and
has also, apparently, had it's whole user interface tweaked to suit us
better.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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