[senit] vista

Commercial Interest Declared.

Just in general, especially for the "casual installer" (not working via 
pre-crafted images), one of Vista's biggest headaches is the install... 
where the "account management" tries to block almost everything (turn it off 
in the Control Panel under Users). Other problems have appeared with many 
text-to-speech systems because of Vista's security - especially when 
combined with some other pre-loaded virus protection [junk] like Norton or 
McAfee. 

It is frustrating, as a user, to be constantly advising vendors of what 
types of error messages appear during Vista installs, software registration, 
or use. Just as with Microsoft, you'd wish this was tested by the developer, 
and "known-issues" were explained in advance.It would be even nicer if 
vendors didn't deny the problems that we are actually having ("we've not 
seen any problems"). 

but then these jobs would be less interesting, right? 

Ira David Socol
Special Education Technology Scholar
CEPSE
College of Education
Michigan State University
socolira at msu.edu
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/ 

Fil McIntyre writes: 

> Commercial Interest Declared. 
> 
> Our testing has not shown any problems with using Switch It! Bob The
> Builder on Vista.  
> 
> If people do have issues then please get in touch with our Technical
> Support Team on 01457 819790 or support at inclusive.co.uk 
> 
> Fil McIntyre
> Information and Training Officer
> Inclusive Technology
> www.inclusive.co.uk
> 01457 819790
>  
> Company Reg: 3525459 
> 
> Registered in England 
> 
>   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Lesley Rahamin
> Sent: 04 December 2007 09:14
> To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [senit] vista 
> 
> Hello everyone
> I can't get Bob the Builder from Inclusive Technology to work on Vista
> but I'm in touch with their technical people to try and sort it out. 
> 
> Lesley Rahamin
> Consultant (semi-retired)