Carolyn, Internet Explorer 8 is the last version that will work for XP.
On 6/12/2015 8:37 AM, Carolyn Arnold wrote:
The problem with clinging to XP is that if I continue to do so,
eventually I will not be able to get on the Internet. I keep getting
warnings, but I cannot update Internet Explorer with this system.
GIFT (God is forever true),
Carolyn
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS)"
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Windows 10, Here’s what Microsoft should
have done instead
Doesn't sound like something I'd break my neck to acquire. That's why
so many folks are still desperately clinging to XP like a drowning man
holding a rope. That's why my builder and I agreed to go with Windows
7 as late as December, 2013. When it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Ted
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Subject: Windows 10, Here’s what Microsoft should have done instead
Windows 10, Here’s what Microsoft should have done instead
a.. By David Cardinal on June 9 2015 from the
b.. Extreme Tech Staff
c.. 'Document source Link:
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http://www.extremetech.com/computing/207780-windows-10-heres-what-microsoft-should-have-done-instead?mailing_id=1276983&mailing=ExtremeTech&mailingID=F98C71CE61AECF34AC8B64A964276FEA
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· Windows 10 is a well-meaning effort by Microsoft to mollify
Windows 8 haters and coax Windows 7 loyalists to upgrade — all while
stubbornly sticking to its goal of a single OS for every possible
platform. And by framing the problem that way, Microsoft has given
itself a nearly impossible task.
· To the company’s credit, each new build lurches closer to
being usable, although with new bugs every time, it is difficult to
evaluate how smooth the final release version will be. Best case: It
may earn the grudging acceptance of Windows 7 users who refuse to move
to Windows 8. And part of that acceptance will come not from sudden
enthusiasm for a new way of interacting with the desktop, but from a
desire to take advantage of the clear core benefits Windows 10
provides in performance, security, administration, and memory usage
over Windows 7 and even Windows 8.
· So why is it so hard to convince users to move to a
brand-new, free, feature-packed, more efficient OS?
·
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/205320-microsoft-windows-10-will-be-the-last-version-of-windows
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· Apple does it all the time. Simply put, because Microsoft
didn’t build Windows 8 or Windows 10 for Windows users. It built them
to further its own business strategy of using the power of the
once-ubiquitous Windows platform to extend its dominance into the
rapidly growing mobile space. The result is an OS whose features are
now flipping and flopping with each new build — as Microsoft tries to
fix problems of its own creation.
· Imagine how good a desktop OS Windows 10 could have been
· What if instead, after realizing what a terrible mistake
Windows 8 was, Microsoft had made the truly brave decision to come
clean and change its strategy? If Windows 10 had been designed from
the beginning to be the best possible desktop OS, and the thousands of
developer years spent trying to make it everything to everyone were
instead spent providing services and applications for the mobile OS
platforms people actually want? If in tandem Microsoft was willing to
let go of its sub-3% market share in mobile, it could also have spent
the cash it used to buy Nokia to build out its cross-platform services
offerings instead. We could have had a really excellent desktop OS —
worth paying for —
·
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/201601-microsoft-desperately-wants-you-to-move-to-windows-10
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· and great integration with the leading mobile platforms.
· Certainly Microsoft has woken up to providing competitive
versions of its applications on Android and iOS. But imagine how much
further along it would have been if it had put real work into the
effort starting years ago. Perhaps we wouldn’t have to use third-party
utilities to sync our information between Google and Outlook, for
example. Or OneNote might have supported syncing on Android during the
first several years it was available, instead of only recently. Pick
any Microsoft desktop technology you access from your iOS or Android
device and you can come up with a list of features that would make it
much more useful.
·
· It’s not like there isn’t anything to fix in Windows
· Anyone who thinks Microsoft didn’t focus on desktop users as
it evolved Windows 8 and 10 because its desktop OS has “no need for
improvement” hasn’t spent enough time wrestling with the inscrutable
hex error codes from Windows Update, or debugging driver version
mismatches, or finding information they’re sure is somewhere on their
disk. While Windows 10 isn’t final, judging by the builds so far, all
of those problems are still there. Even support for high-resolution
displays is still spotty. Windows 10 adds some new Zoom options, but
there is still no serious scalable-font solution that works across the
full range of possible displays.
· As a good example of how this alternate direction would have
worked, let’s look at the Control Panel. No one doubts that it is an
old, crufty system for managing a computer. A desktop-focused OS
project would have overhauled it completely while preserving its
functionality. Instead, Microsoft seems determined to replace it in
bits and pieces with new “touch-friendly” settings that aren’t much
more intuitive, and that become even more frustrating when you need to
go back to the old system for pieces that are still missing. Windows
10 is supposed to address this problem, but we’re less than two months
from shipment and Settings are still far from being either intuitive
or finished.
· Tablet mode and Continuum are also inventions seeking to
solve a problem Microsoft has invented for itself. For the few of us
who actually own and use a Surface Tablet mode, it’s sort of a good
thing. (I love that I can both taken written notes and run Outlook on
my SP3, but with the addition of desktop apps to Android, I’m not sure
how many others will see the need to spend that kind of money for
basic productivity.) It’s good because it is better than Windows 8,
where often the touch keyboard wouldn’t pop up when needed, and icons
could be hard to finger.
· It’s still only sort of good, though, because it’s confusing
and forces the user to have one more thing to think about. Somehow
iPads and Android tablets seem to easily survive the addition of a
keyboard without the need for an entire special OS mode. Like many of
the other new features in Windows 10, it seems like a “throw it
against the wall and hope it sticks” attempt to solve a user pain
point — not a from-the-ground-up technology architected to support the
broad range of devices that can now run Windows.
·
· Windows 10 internals are actually pretty impressive
· There is a lot to like about Windows 10 — in addition to
having the best kernel Windows has ever had. Edge (aka Spartan) is
promising (although it too is only a prototype version, and certainly
could have been shipped separately). Cortana might be useful, but is
so limited and buggy in the current builds that it is hard to tell. If
it doesn’t get sorted out by July, Microsoft risks taking yet another
step backwards in desktop search functionality, which would be a
shame. Virtual desktops are a nice feature, although hardly
groundbreaking.
· The included apps are certainly way ahead of the ones
Microsoft shipped with Windows 8, but Microsoft has had many excellent
desktop apps over the years — including the now-dead Windows Media
Center, LiveWriter, and MovieMaker. It is the company’s own fault that
it feels the need to start over time and again. On the tablet side, if
Microsoft is serious about usability, it should be providing a better
touch keyboard — one that includes swipe-through typing, for example.
I also wish the company had finally fixed Windows Update. Mobile users
won’t put up with the way it works now — they are spoiled by seamless
OTAs from Apple and even many Android vendors.
· Perhaps the ultimate warning sign about Windows 10 for me is
that for many, its positioning is summed up as being “no worse than
the six-year-old Windows 7, while adding support for tablets and
phones.” That sounds pretty silly, but maybe not far from the truth. I
run a Windows 7 desktop for some of my business-critical applications
right next to a couple of Windows 8.1 machines and a couple of Windows
10 machines. I don’t really feel any less productive when I’m on the
Windows 7 machine, and I can’t imagine that I’ll upgrade it to Windows
10 and risk something breaking.
· Tablets are certainly a different story. I’ve already put
Windows 10 on almost all my Windows tablets, and suspect most of the
small number of Windows tablet users will also. Unfortunately for
Microsoft, Windows tablets are a relatively small market, and may
never become mainstream.
· Laptops are the most interesting case. While each version of
Windows adds new power management features, that may not be enough to
get laptop users to upgrade. For example, Microsoft keeps changing the
WiFi settings interface, and for many of us, the new version is lame
compared to the more powerful one that preceded it. Engineering
laptops still ship primarily with Windows 7, and I don’t see anything
about Windows 10 changing that. Mainstream laptops will get dragged
along onto Windows 10 because of the Microsoft marketing machine, but
I don’t know how many current laptop users will bother to take
advantage of the free upgrade. No doubt that is part of why Microsoft
is inflicting its Windows 10 adware on the already confusing Windows
Update process.
· At this point the die is cast, and we’ll need to live with
whatever we get on July 29th — or stay put and hope the little
Get-Windows-10 nagware goes away.
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