2007/7/18, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 18/07/07, jonathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Harold Fuchs wrote: > > > Please would you share with us the ways in which the versions of Vista > > other than Ultimate and Enterprise are crippled, or point us at links > where we > > Multilingual input is the most frequently listed crippled > feature on this list. > > Microsoft has a page announcing with great joy and pride > which features were crippled in which version of Windows > Vista.[I guess it is a great accomplishment for them to > admit that they knowingly designed things to be fatally > flawed, as a way of enhancing their revenue stream.] > > xan > > jonathon
> > Please would you share with us the URL for this page? Thank you. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
Harold, as Jonathon has not yet responded, I take the liberty of forwarding you herewith the URL of a page, not, indeed, produced by Microsoft, but by the ITS help desk at the University of Iowa, and which clearly shows which features are found on which editions of the Vista OS : http://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/vista/new/versions.htm
From my point of view, the Business edition I have installed on my computer
is indeed crippled, as it does not allow me access to the Microsoft IMEs I have used in, e g, XP to directly input CJK scripts from my keyboard (the really frustrating thing is that the necessary files - some 166 of them - seem to be installed, but I cannot execute them). I regard this as an entirely unexpected and egregious deterioration in conditions of use when compared, for example, with Windows XP Home, and I have seen no explanation from Microsoft on why the firm found it necessary to introduce this restriction. Fortunately, I still have XP Home on one partition, so I retain access to Windows IMEs, and on my Ubuntu 7.04 harddisk, I have access to what I regard as a far superior input editor, known as SCIM. But not everyone finds him or herself in this situation.... Henri
