Ron:

Also, when I was out in Colorado, the Freedom Scientific tech support folks 
adamantly said that they were not able to provide Jaws support for 
Thunderbird users.  And, that was another thing that kind of turned me off 
to that possibility at that time.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Extreme E-mail Program Frustrations


> Hi Tom.
>
> If you don't want Microsoft stuff, use Thunderbird.  It is free and
> works reasonably well with screen reading software.
>
> On 11/18/2013 7:55 PM, Tom Behler wrote:
>>      Hi, all.
>>
>> As many of you know, I am in the process of upgrading the main home 
>> computer
>> to Windows 7 from Windows xp.
>>
>> My original plan to update my e-mail management program was to move to
>> Outlook 2010 from Outlook Express.  This was based on the idea that I had
>> very successfully accessed my personal g-mail account via Outlook Express 
>> on
>> my Windows XP computer, and that shifting to Outlook 2010.   should be a
>> pretty simple matter.
>>
>> Well, I'm beginning to seriously believe that I was very wrong.
>>
>> I am having all kinds of pproblems with the version of Outlook 2010 I'm
>> working with, including Outlook itself constantly freezing.  The software
>> was
>> purchased as part of an Office 2010 software package through my 
>> University
>> as a University employee, but I am becoming convinced that something 
>> might
>> be defective in the software.
>>
>> I checked with our University's tech center, but they say the copy I have 
>> is
>> the only one they have.
>>
>> This is leading me to two questions:
>>
>> 1.  Does anyone know where I might be able to get a trial version of 
>> Outlook
>> 2010 to see if I can get it to work any better?
>>
>> or
>>
>> 2.  Perhaps better yet, what other e-mail management programs have any of
>> you found that work well with g-mail, and windows 7?
>>
>> For the record here, I'm using Jaws 14.
>>
>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>