Sorry, but I have to disagree with both: xp does not have general speech recognition, nor does it have voice command at all. It has voice dictation for office programs only, and actually that doesn't include excel. That's not at all the same as hands-free control and dictation for your entire system.
Next, categorizing your menus isn't at all the same as the vista search feature I mentioned. It may help for some menu choices, it does nothing for finding a file you just saved or downloaded and don't know where it is (just as one for instance). You need to try vista yourself. Chip ------------------------------ Chip Orange Database Administrator Florida Public Service Commission [email protected] (850) 413-6314 (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.) > -----Original Message----- > From: slery [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:35 PM > To: GW Info Discussion List > Subject: FW: W.E. and Netbook PC's > > Chip, > > A couple of mis-informed points: > > > -----Original Message----- > > * it has voice recognition > > XP also has this feature though the Vista version performs > better, as it should. > > > * It has a really nice way of handling the combination of > > start menu and windows file search. This may be it's best > > liked feature. If, for instance, you know you've got a menu > > choice for an image editor somewhere, but you can't remember > > the company who makes it, and the menu choice for it is under > > a menu named for the company, then in XP you've got a > > problem. You've got to check out every unfamiliar menu group > > under the programs menu until you see the link for the image ditor. > > > Obviously you do not know how to customize your start menu. > My XP start menu has been categorized so that I can find what > ever I want when I want. If I want text editors, I have a > folder for word processing, games they have their own folder > and so on. This actually just a fancy way of getting to > things based off of windows 3.1 folders. > > > > > In Vista, you just start to type the name of the image > > editor, and vista instantly brings up a menu of links, > > including those from the programs menu, but also your > > favorites in case what you remember is that you bookmarked it > > but didn't yet download and install it. > > This is the part that was actually new and some find quite nice. > > > * it now allows you to manipulate the volume separately for > > each sound source. want your screen reader to be louder than > > the cd player, no problem. > > I don't know what settings you are using, but I have separate > controls for all of these in XP. > > Cindy > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and > your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending > your message to [email protected] so the entire list will > receive it. > > All GW-Info messages are archived at > http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through > and sorted using the search > form at the bottom of the page. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body > of the message. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
