[Athen] installing AT on Surface Pro 3

[Burdick, Thomas]

Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I know the older Surface (not sure which ones) actually have Windows RT Operating System and not the full version of Windows.  Microsoft realized RT was a bad idea and started doing full windows 8(.1) with them.  Stuff has to be specially designed to run on RT.

From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Gjolmesli
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 12:47 PM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] installing AT on Surface Pro 3

Hi Dan.  Have you, or has anyone installed Jaws and can a standard keyboard then be plugged in  to use the keystrokes used to navigate with JAWS?



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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Dan Comden
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 9:15 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] installing AT on Surface Pro 3

Good stuff, Doug.

I too was able to install NatSpeak Pro on a Surface Pro. Rather than trying to deal with an external optical drive, I created a .ISO file from the install media on a different computer and then transferred that to the target machine, mounted it as a drive using Virtual CloneDrive, and installed from there. This approach works very well for a number of applications, and you'll find that it's a faster experience because you're not dealing with the limited speed of a mechanical device.

I also recommend using a USB microphone to overcome any limitations of the sound card on the Surface.

-*- Dan



On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Doug Mantle <atnews at outlook.com<mailto:atnews at outlook.com>> wrote:
That is funny. I am using Dragon NaturallySpeaking premium version 13 to dictate this reply on my Surface Pro 3 that has an I7, 8 GB of RAM, 256 hard drive.





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