Re: OT: Windows 7 beta, (my) first look.

On 2009-01-19 11:02:23 +0000, T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:45:56 +0000, James Jolley
<james.jolley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Hi again,

Sorry to bring it up again, accesibility.

No, you carry on! ;-)

Although I'm fortunate to still have reasonable eyesight (my arms are
getting shorter though) I don't often (need to) consider accessibility
issues. Someone else might so it's all good stuff.

Fusion is remarkibly
accessible for the windows install, and the settings for the OS. The
amount of RAM for VMS etc can be configured quite easilly via
VoiceOver. The advantage I think with fusion for me was that my windows
screen reader, well one of them at least, did run fine in the VM. In
fact, I had to use VMs at one time for usenet because i'd not
discovered unison and used to use a windows usenet reader called
Gravity.

Have you tried VirtualBox out of interest?

http://www.virtualbox.org/

I did and for my first real foray into VMs (outside the odd game
daemon) it worked pretty well. A good test for me is can I use it
without resorting to any instructions and with VB I did.

The bottom line for me is that whilst it's mildly interesting playing
with VM's n stuff I am lucky enough to run an OS that's 'already
accepted in more places worldwide' (or am I getting confused with my
credit card)?

Is there a VirtualHackintosh do you know? ;-)

Cheers, T i m

I think you can run Mac Os X server in a VM. As to Virtual box, not actually tried it but others have said that it's not quite as accessible as fusion. I only bought it in any case because it was on the cheap because of the beta cycle when it first came out.

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