M Henri Day wrote:
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
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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
Henri,
Thank you. A very interesting page.
Regards, Harold
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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