What we need is a site where people post errors generated by commercial applications — no comments, just errors. The system maintains counts by product, host OS, date range, and you can see how applications scored before buying. With a large enough sample size, the results should be indicative of the broader stability and quality [...]
When Windows/Office XP’s built-in speech recognition stopped working a few months ago (following some unidentified Windows Update), I gave up on it and went back to the keyboard. My wife’s RSI hasn’t improved enough for that, though, so I switched her to Dragon’s NaturallySpeaking. In the beginning, it looked great for her, and she found [...]