Since tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I will be filled with the gratefulness for all the blessings in my life. I'm thinking today should be dedicated to complaining! I guess I could complain about MS and how it has crushed me physically but I won't because I get to be here by myself a lot, I get taken care of pretty good, fed well, and now have 2 cats to replace Macy. I'm pretty appreciative of computers but I have to admit it has become a love/hate relationship.
It seems like Siri on my iPhone should be much more functional after so many years of being around. I use it as a safety net to make calls if I problems during the day. Is terrible for actually running my phone. I can open apps but can do absolutely nothing within the app. Seems like it should be improved since as been around for so long.
I'm not limited to using my PC along with a voice recognition software named Dragon Naturally Speaking and the software called Smyle mouse. My biggest complaint is that my old Dragon naturally speaking, 13.5 premium worked so much better than the upgrade to release 14 professional it's ridiculous. Right after I upgraded to 14 thinking it would be an improvement I kept getting calls telling me I could upgrade to release 15 for $99. I talked to a rep and said I am disabled will release 15 be an improvement for me? He said he wasn't sure that I said please check and if it will call me back and I will upgrade. Never heard from him again.
On my living room PC I have a Dell that started with Windows 8. After a year of getting notifications that I could upgrade to Windows 10 I finally did. My bedroom PC started out with Windows 10. It's very difficult for my engineering mind to deal with the fact that both PCs with Windows 10 are very very different. Many apps are different also. I only have voice software my living room PC. I did a Windows update couple days ago and now it barely works with Microsoft Edge. I could use Google Chrome if I want and recently I changed the resolution on my living room PC so that the text was now bigger. This worked for things I did with Edge but Google Chrome text stayed the same as before and I cannot figure out any way to change it.
So as functional as I am with my PCs seems there are so much room for improvement but none of the computer or software people worry about disabled people. It's kind of funny because that's how Dragon NaturallySpeaking got it's start.
My motto for MS is always been "I'll find a way to muddle through" and that's what I still try to do.
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