[Lowfer] Argo and Spectran under Windows 8.1

[Clive S Carver]

Hi John

I used to use 'Microsoft Office Document Scanning' which came with MS Office
2003 with my WinXP pc using a Canon scanner. It used to give me 99% accurate
OCR, much better than the bundled Canon software.

Then one day when I came to use it I found that it didn't work.

After a lot of Googling and general messing about, discovered that this
program was either not included, or substantially different in Microsoft's
2007 Office offering and a MS upgrade! had brought my 2003 Office in line
with 2007...

Then I upgraded to Win7 Pro64 and found that my Canon scanner was not now
supported!  So a new scanner and eventually got 'Microsoft Office Document
Scanning' operational again.

Progress!

Cheers!

Clive
GW4EYO


-----Original Message-----
From: Lowfer [mailto:lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of JD
Sent: 24 November 2014 09:43
To: Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &UK) and MedFer bands
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Argo and Spectran under Windows 8.1

Interesting information, Cliff, but I think it demonstrates precisely why 
the example was sound.

It's a direct answer to what JB was asking: why WOULDN'T an application 
written for one version of Windows necessarily be expected to work on a 
later one?  Because Microsoft sometimes changes the rules.

This particular change may have been documented well enough for active 
developers.  But we mere mortals being forced to "upgrade" to a later OS, as

Mark is having to do, are less likely to hear about such things until after 
we suddenly encounter a problem with our preferred software.  So, it pays to

ask about others' experiences.

(In my anecdote about WSPR, note that I had _not_  upgraded from a pre-Vista

version of Windows.  The computer came with Windows 7, and my first 
installation of WSPR worked just fine on it.  Whether it _should_ have 
worked at first or not is an interesting side question.  Did somebody at 
Microsoft slip up and omit the file restriction in the first release of 7, 
then correct it?  At any rate, IMO, it's worth remembering that periodic 
updates alone can sometimes break an application, even without going to a 
whole new version of the OS.)

John 

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