Thanks to all of you. This is very helpful information. Susan, I appreciate your willingness to run more tests. I'm particularly interested in being able to run NS on CrossOver Mac by Codeweavers. I am planning on switching from a PC to a Mac, and for several reasons, I don't want to have to install the Windows operating system and use Boot Camp or Fusion. I already own NS 8 Professional and am hoping it can function on the Mac and be used on Office applications designed for the Mac (and on Mac applications, too). I don't need most of the features that go beyond the Preferred version, so if I stick to those features available on Preferred, would I get good functionality? <br>
<br>Of course, if I could also use the feature that records and saves a transcript of specific dictations (not available on Preferred), it would be especially nice. Any possibility of your testing that out? <br><br>I was hoping I could upgrade to the new version 10 and use it on the Mac, but it seems that would not be a good idea at this time. <br>
<br>I'll be grateful for whatever further assistance you can provide. <br><br>Steve D. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Susan Cragin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:susancragin@earthlink.net">susancragin@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">>On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Jeff Zaroyko <<a href="mailto:jeffzaroyko@gmail.com">jeffzaroyko@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> While I don't own any NS product, two open bugs to come to mind for NS<br>
>> 8, one affecting the installer but with a workaround, bug 15708 and<br>
>> the other a user has reported a regression bug 16248 but was not<br>
>> interested in running a regression test.<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15708" target="_blank">http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15708</a><br>
>> <a href="http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16248" target="_blank">http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16248</a><br>
><br>
>I think those were both for NS 7, not 8...<br>
>A full list of NS bugs is at<br>
><a href="http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=Dragon+Naturally+Speaking" target="_blank">http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=Dragon+Naturally+Speaking</a><br>
>Looks like 9 is happier than 10...?<br>
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</div></div>I have 7, 8, 9, 9.5 and 10 here.<br>
I'll test a couple tonight, maybe 7 and 8, on today's git.<br>
Here's what I remember.<br>
7 worked great right out of the box at one time, with all-native code.<br>
8 is virtually the same product as 7. Ditto worked great. (Nobody bought 8 much because it was the same engine as 7.)<br>
9.0 worked pretty good out of the box with a couple of glitches.<br>
9.5 does not install, and works not at all, except for one lucky man who developed a workaround that doesn't always work.<br>
(9.5 replaced 9.0 as "version 9," and 9.0 is no longer sold, at least in the US.)<br>
10.0 installs well and runs pretty well for 10 minutes, then nasty crashes happen.<br>
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Wine support has been given primarily for the two cheapest "consumer" versions, Standard and Preferred.<br>
Very few people have asked about Professional, and I don't know of anyone who has tried to make Professional 8 run with wine.<br>
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