Yes. You can install windows without sited help no problem. I've successfully installed windows 7 64bit and windows 8.1. Obviously the stuff that comes up in windows itself won't work with voiceover as you need a windows screen reader, but installing windows with VMWare fusion works fine. Hope this helps.
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Grant Hardy Sent: Tuesday, 30 December 2014 1:30 PM To: MacVisionaries List Subject: Re: VM Fusion vs Bootcamp Hello Kawal Kawal, You’re definitely correct about JAWS authorization being erased when a drive is reformatted. In fact in my experience, JAWS even deactivates when the Boot Camp support software is repaired or uninstalled. Not needing to worry about this would be a definite advantage. For those who use VM Fusion, are you able to install Windows without sighted help? Grant Sent from mobile On Dec 29, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu <kgli...@icloud.com> wrote: Another advantage of VMware is if you have Jaws on your Window machine, you will not lose the licence as you can cut and paste your Windows Virtual machine anywhere you like. As long as you tell your VMware that you moved the machine and not done anything else with it, you will not lose your life when using Jaws. I hope I have this correct. If however, you were to put windows on Boot camp, you could lose your jaws licence if you were to format your Mac. I hope I have this right as well as I’ve only used VMware and have no experience of Boot camp. Can you still not install Windows via boot camp without sighted assistance? Kawal. > On 29 Dec 2014, at 22:03, David Taylor <e.david.tay...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would add a few things to this. If you use Fusion, you can keep a backup of > your VM, or VMs anywhere you like, so even if you have to reinstall OS X from > scratch, you don’t have to lose your VM, or have it backed up by Time > Machine. You can share files and folders between the two, and largely > protect your Windows from hacks by staying Mac side until you actually need > Windows. You can also take snapshots of your VM to which you can return > should anything ever go wrong with it, and these really do fix a lot of > problems. You can also easily manage your keyboard in Fusion so that you have > pretty much a native Windows experience while in Windows if you wish. The > time to think about Bootcamp is if you want to do something you know can > cause problems in Fusion, or if you don’t switch between systems much or > can’t afford Fusion. > > Cheers > Dave > >> On 29 Dec 2014, at 08:13 pm, Marianne Denning <maria...@denningweb.com> >> wrote: >> >> I asked this question several years ago and decided to put Bootcamp on >> my MacBook Air because of everyone's responses. Here we are several >> years later and I would like to know if Bootcamp is still the best >> decision if I want to run Windows 7 or 8 and JAWS 15 or 16 on my >> MacBook Air. 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