I don't really like to speculate much. Still...
Sorry, to break your dreams. Smile.
Listen, Jeremy told it to be a FREE gift? If your suggestion is right, the
screen reader will be included with the new Windows. True, at no additional
cost. Still, everyone who wants it, would then have to spend who knows many
hundreds dollars, on upgrading their system. Free?
And the beta cycle of WE8, I don't know about that idea either. Unless GW
would have changed their copyright rules, that would not benefit the whole
community. Several of us, are not even at the latest version of WE, due to
the fact of us sitting outside the English part of the world, and we are not
allowed into the beta cycles of GW. When GW released the 7.5 version, it
took just about half a year, before I could download and install it, simply
because it was not released locally until a couple of months ago. So, if
they release anything of WE8, under the current copyright scheme, that will
only be a benefit of those of you, who happen to be under English versions
of WE.
Have no problem in understanding all the anticipations, and it could be fun
enough to speculate on what it all is about. After all, since it is going to
be a free gift, that will be for everyone, and GW is running a business not
a cherity, I guess that some of these big dreams have to be put on the
shelf.
I don't mean to be anything negative here, simply just point out some
realistic parts of the story. After all, it won't help much with all the
speculations. GW already knows what to put out tomorrow, and we will all
hear about it. So sleep well, and take it easy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Santa" <[email protected]>
To: "Scott Rumery" <[email protected]>; "gwmicro" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: Just Another Guess
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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