Hi All, Wow, Please try to focus on the positive! I think this is fantastic.
For people on a tight budget they can now use the office version of WE for a true low cost. Since office is now $99/yr they can have both and more options for a screen reader than ever before! For people like me who like the tech support and who want the extra's I will continue to buy WE from GW even though I have a current subscription to office 2013 as well. Since GW now has a partnership with MS we will pray they get better and more access to the API'S and better access to all ms products. I don't see a down side here ... if you want the free version with office then great ... if you like the current offering then great. I pray the GW staff gets pay checks that will support there families and allows them to produce the best screen reader ever for as long as we need it! I for one think this is great news. I personally hope the GW staff can build WE in to MS products directly so we can get the best access ever and we give Apple a run for there money! Thanks, My opinions are as valuable as what I am charging for them! $0 Sam -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Peterson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:57 PM To: Amanda Lee; [email protected] Subject: Re: GW Micro and Microsoft Partnership That's very well said Amanda. Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? -----Original Message----- From: Amanda Lee Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: GW Micro and Microsoft Partnership Jim, This is extremely in poor taste. It is an unnecessary attack on the only screen reader company who really cares about consumers. Who cares what the payout is. The awesome takeaway is that window-Eyes prevails and that works nicely for myself and many many loyal and grateful users. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Grimsby JR." <[email protected]> To: "'Solomon Mekonnen'" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 6:40 PM Subject: RE: GW Micro and Microsoft Partnership > Yes I agree. I am not surprised though. I was thinking Microsoft would > try to buy gw micro a partner ship is cool. Enjoy that nice big paycheck > that I am sure Microsoft has givin you. Btw people rest assured that > Microsoft is paying gw micro and stop asking them to provide information > that is none of our concern. I hope with this partnership Microsoft will > bring some of the talent pool to window-eyes and we might see better apps > for more programs and of course touch. Office is a start but if I was a > guessing man at some point I think it will be extended to windows it self. > I just got a venue tablit with Microsoft office home and > Student on board. So if I didn't already have a copy of window-eyes I > would > have been able to install this new offer and away we go. Is there any > plans > to include window-eyes directly in the office install? This way if a user > gets a pc with office home or a trial on it window-eyes will already be > on > the pc? just think about it get a new pc with office on it and you don't > even need to use narrator to install what ever just fire up window-eyes > and > away you go. Now you people who talk to me about not upgrading eat your > words. > > This is wonderful news. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Solomon Mekonnen [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:48 AM > To: Peter Duran; gw micro ([email protected]) > Subject: Re: GW Micro and Microsoft Partnership > > I concur! > At 02:28 PM 1/14/2014, Peter Duran wrote: >>Congratulations Dan and Doug and all the GW staff! What a coup! It's >>hard to fathom all the ramifications of this joint venture between GW >>Micro and Microsoft. You guys are the best! >> >>Peter Duran > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. 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