Every piece of software has a life cycle and to me GW has put much less
time into keeping WE up to date. Your idea could indeed make some sense.
On 12/18/2011 12:38 PM, Scott Rumery wrote:
Hello fellow Window eys users. I have been giving some more thought to what GW
Micro could possibly be announcing tomorrow and I think that I will throw it
out to the list to see what the rest of you think.
I keep going back to Jeremy's original message about the announcement and I can't
seem to get away from the fact that he says that this is a Christmas present to "ALL
BLIND PEOPLE". This could mean several things, but I am thinking that is may be
about Window Eyes itself. Does this mean that GW Micro is going to announce that WE 8 is
ready to go into a beta cycle? I really don't thin so, but I could be wrong.
I gave some thought to what Don posted on Friday about GW Micro open
sourcing Window Eyes, but I don't think that this is what they are going to do.
I however do not think that this idea is a stupid idea as one list member
said. I do however think that they could have some big news for the blindness
community at large. More specifically the blind computer user.
I think that GW Micro may be getting ready to announce that they have
been in negotiations with Microsoft and they have reached a deal with Microsoft
to license Window Eyes to Microsoft for use in all future versions of Windows.
I say this because I can remember that when Microsoft made the announcement
about releasing Windows 8 inn mid 2012 that there was talk or maybe I read it
somewhere that there would be a much more robust screen reader in Windows 8. I
know that this idea may seem way out there but I thought that it would make for
some good conjecture on the list.
Please lets hear what everyone thinks of this idea, and if you think
that it could be possible. Think about the possibility of having a copy of
Window Eyes on every PC sold. To me that would seem like a no brainer, and
also I think that GW Micro would be able to get some more software engineers to
work on Window Eyes moving forward.
Just my thoughts. I will be listening tomorrow when they make their
announcement.
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