Yes, I brought this up in the IRC channel. See the full log.

http://www.tau.ac.il/~itamarez/sr/Vista-vs-Xp.htm

Looks like it’s some extra api they’re focing dev’s to use before it works properly.

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6165615.html

“I was not able to dictate into Open Office Writer and other non-Microsoft programs by default, but when I selected Options | Enable Dictation Everywhere from the Speech context menu, which is used to dictate text into programs that don’t automatically accept dictation, I was able to dictate to the Open Office program. However, it didn’t work as well as with Microsoft programs. Instead of immediately typing the text I spoke, it would pop up a number of alternatives for me to choose from. With the Speech APIs, developers can make their applications speech-enabled (and many more probably will in the future).”

Or they just cripple it.

That’s interM$operability for you.