Installing Windows was: speakup is nice

[Nick Dotson]

Wrong!  I'm using them under XP Home Pro and Vista.

Nick


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: Installing Windows was: speakup is nice


> Windows doesn't have SATA drivers? How quaint?
>
> I've also heard their 64-bit support is behind. Is that so?
>
> Janina
>
> Tyler Littlefield writes:
>> I've got xp. right now, the only thing stopping me from going totally
>> with that rather than with this crap they load is the fact that I can't
>> get sata drivers, and any other xp install doesn't recognize it.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tyler Littlefield
>> http://tysdomain.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak"
>> <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: Installing Windows was: speakup is nice
>>
>>
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>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:53:25AM -0600, John G. Heim wrote:
>>>> Oh, shoot! One more major drawback. It doesn't work with Vista. Only
>>>> Windows XP. I'd presume though that you could install XP, install 
>>>> speech,
>>>> and then upgrade to Vista. That used to work when upgrading from 95 or 
>>>> ME
>>>> to XP.
>>>
>>> The other drawback I see here too is that this requires you to have
>>> both legal copies of xp, and an upgrade copy of vista. This could be
>>> quite expensive, assuming you want to go legal of course. Also, this
>>> is fine, as long as it's still possible to buy a copy of xp. However,
>>> once those stop being sold, and you don't have one before that
>>> happens, you're probably out of luck.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
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