This means that lots of specialty applications don't work. I deleted about eight old programs including a screen capture program, and a font manager. Notably the driver for my ancient Canon scanner no longer works. Looks like I am going to start photographing documents.
Most important to me is accounting software that my wife uses in her business -- AccountEdge 2004. This no longer runs in Lion, and it needs to upgrade to AccountEdge 2011 for $300. Jenny's business is a lean operation, and $300 is a lot of money. The main issue is that she uses a few features all year, and then we need to make statements for income taxes at the end of the year. Now $300 is less than an accountant would cost, so I suppose that it is cheaper. I guess a dual boot system is the way to go.
News reports are that Flash is not supported in Lion, but I can say that it is. It runs on my computer fine.
The so-called "iPad" feel of Lion is overblown to me. Notably the window dragging gesture has been reversed on the Mac to make it more like the iPad. This seemed weird at first, but it actually is more natural -- more like push a piece of paper across a desk. On the other hand, I expect I will always be confusing the direction with that on my Windows PC. There are some changes in the menus, and indicator bars. There is a default full screen option, that gets rid of the desktop clutter. Overall look and feel is not that different.
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