Hi Sky: They are a Financial Company, not a technical company so are likely trying to build something they can offload to another party. There are 2 approaches: One is to combine WindowEyes into JAWS or just get rid of WindowEyes and market jaws as the only really professional screen reader available to government, educational institutes and industry or; To improve jaws or WindowEyes or both, and market them as seperat programs for sale to someone. My guess, 50, 50 at best, is they will eliminate WindowEyes and use the fact that someone who buys jaws and the supporting programs will absolutely dominate the market and sell the final product at a nice profit. That is unless there is a blind person at that company who wants to make their company the final owner of such a product - some special interest overriding any profit they may pick up selling it. Everything is still up in the air but your description of the audios is not encouraging if you are a WindowEyes owner and user and especially for those of us using the Office 365 versions. Anyway, it is what it is I guess so just be ready to switch if one day WindowEyes suddenly goes away. New management may not even notify us of the impending change - who knows and there are no alternatives anyway. Rick USA
-----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sky Mundell via Talk Sent: Sunday, October 2, 2016 8:15 PM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: The future of Window-eyes Hello Window-Eyes users. Sky here. I wanted to update you guys on What's been happening at VFO Group, Particuarly in regards to Zoomtext, and Window-eyes. In September, 2 editions of FSCast came out regarding JAWS 18. One of the features that will be in JAWS 18 will be a talking mouse support. The guys at VFO group has said that They have plans to put the talking mouse support in Zoomtext, and make JAWS work with it. This made me laugh, as first of all, Zoomtext already has Window-eyes in it, called Fusion, secondly, Zoomtext, from my understanding, already has built in mouse support already with Fusion. No menschen of Window-eyes or even Fusion. In the next FSCast, VFO went into more details on JAWS 18 and Zoomtext. What is going to happen is that in Zoomtext 11, JAWS and Zoomtext will be working together. I can honestly tell you that they also plan to put in a talking mouse support for MAGic, which will be released in 2017. This is not a good sign, and besides, Zoomtext and JAWS, would cost a lot more to buy, than it would cost to buy Zoomtext Fusion. At no point in the two FSCasts do they menschen what's going to happen with Window-eyes. If you guys would like to take a look at the two FSCasts, go to http://podcast.freedomscientific.com/FSCast/episodes/FSCast131-JAWS_18_part1 .mp3 and http://podcast.freedomscientific.com/FSCast/episodes/FSCast132-JAWS_18_part2 .mp3 I also want to hear what the senior management from AI Squared have to say on the future. _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/ofbgmail%40mi. rr.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
