Dave,
Thank you for your thoughtful email.
As you will see from my signature I have moved much of my personal computing to
the Apple platform. However, for my job I still use Windows and several of the
screen readers/magnifiers on that platform.
The evolution of computing for individuals continues and the support of Window
Eyes is just part of a larger phenomenon, exemplified by cheaper adaptive
solutions for the blind and vision-impaired. If Microsoft follows Apple and
improves Narrator to the point where it competes favorably with the expensive
screen readers we have used for the last 25 years or so, it won’t be just WE
that fades away. The economic model of the thousand dollar screen reader will
be untenable.
Regards,
Stan
Sent from my Mac Mini
> On Jan 29, 2017, at 9:52 AM, Dave via Talk <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, as this subject comes around again, I had to laugh when I read
> that someone was going to change the negativity by re-titling the
> Subject line. Sounds like some Butt Hurt SJW who is looking for a
> Safe Place after getting their Feelings Hurt.
>
> I wish my conclusions were different, but my own thoughts run along the
> same lines as Vaughn's. There are some disturbing signs, that all has
> not been well at GW Micro, or for the future of Window Eyes.
>
> BW Micro had a great staff and many had been their for years. When that
> staff, in a very short amount of time, start leaving, this is not a Good
> Sign.
>
> I feel for Doug, as it seems he is one of the last still standing at
> what is left of the old GW Micro.
>
> Now that a much larger Company has came along and Swallowed up A I
> Squared, and GW Micro. We will all need to wait and see what the Big
> New Company does with its new acquisitions.
>
> The personal service we all received from GW Micro is probably gone for
> good. Large companies tend to be less caring, and do not allow their
> employees to have the same amount of liberty as the staff of a much
> smaller company might experience.
>
> Large Companies tend to move slower, and fix problems when they get
> around to it. usually when the problem is causing a loss in money
> coming in.
>
> I am Thankful for the Support I was given when the most recent update
> was made available. Without this, all of us would be using NVDA today.
>
> I do expect Window Eyes will be continuing, but at a much slower pace
> than before.
>
> There may come a time when Microsoft does a new Windows 11, or 12, that
> makes Window Eyes un=usable. The folks at the top of this Big New
> Company will need to decide whether to invest the money and resources to
> update Window Eyes, or just push Window Eyes into the Trash Bin, and
> make all of us an offer to upgrade to JAWS.
>
> Speculations are nothing more than responding to signs of impending
> change to come.
>
> We all have seen changes in the staff, and other issues that were slow
> to be addressed. And so the speculations begin, and will continue.
> Call in Human Nature. Few of us like Surprises.
>
> And lets face it, all of us here have invested a fair amount of cash
> into Window Eyes, and to start over With JAWS or something else isn't
> something I really want to do, unless I find myself with no other
> choices.
>
> All of us are along for the ride, where ever it might go. If Window
> Eyes lives on, Great! And if Not, then Not so Great, but we all will
> adjust as changes come. As Blind people, we all have had to make many
> adjustments along the Path we all have walked.
>
> All of us will do what we need to do when the time comes.
>
> Grumpy Dave
>
>
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