Re: Official word from FS about vista
- From: "Rick Harmon" <rharmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:45:35 -0500
listen again,
Its free but if you are not a SMA owner then JAWS 8 will not work with
Vista. Not sure why they are doing this but that is what they said in the
podcast.
Rick
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Lee" <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:38 AM
Subject: RE: Official word from FS about vista
Jeff,
The way I've heard (I've just heard this
podcast now), it seems that the next update
is a free version for all JAWS 8.0 customers.
Cheers,
Joseph P.S. I guess you can now invite FS
folks on Main Menu show next week to have
indefth discussion about JAWS and Vista.
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jeff Bishop" <jeff.bishop@xxxxxxxxx
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date sent: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:33:07 -0700
>Subject: RE: Official word from FS about
vista
>I could be mistaken here but I think if you
are not in the SMA program that
>Vista will not be an option. It was kind of
vague and I am happy to be
>corrected on this fact. So, let's say you
own 8.0 but you have zero SMA
>counts left, are you entitled to Vista? I
don't think so. It isn't clear.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Chris Skarstad
>Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:02 PM
>To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Official word from FS about vista
> Hi folks!
>I just now listened to the latest addition of
the FS podcast from Freedom
>Scientific, and I've finally got the sscoop
regarding the status of JAWS and
>Vista. As I understand it, what they're
going to do is release a *free*
>update to JAWS 8.0 in early February, , and
yes, it will have windows vista
>support, as well as a whole bunch of other
bug fixes built into it.
>As I said, if you're using JAWS 8.0 right
now, this update is *free*!!!!
>Ok so we got that out of the way. The next
issue is pricing. According to
>Eric Damery, the folks at FS would like to
encourage everyone who isn't in
>their S M A program to start using it,
because it'll make sure that you get
>either 1 or the next 2 updates available,
remember this is all dependant
>upon wether or not you're already on it and
what your status might be. but
>for someone who isn't on the SMA program and
starts using it, they're
>guaranteed a version of JAWS, probably 9.0
which will be out later in the
>year, plus the next one after that. . But
here's the important part.
>Since they figure that almost no one will be
using Vista home basic, if you
>upgrade your system to Windows vista home
premium, which includes all the
>multimedia stuff, you'll be able to use your
existing JAWS standard license,
>if that's what you use today. So for all of
us using xp home and if we go
>to Vista home premium, we won't have to pay
$200 extra for another license.
>Now of course if you're running Vista
business or Vista ultimate, you'll
>most likely have to use JAWS professional,
but that's just an idea I had
>based on what i heard.
> Anyways, if you want the whole story,
visit:
>http://www.freedomscientific.com/fscast
> and listen. episode 2 is the one you'll
want to listen to. and remember
>this is just a regular mp3 file that you can
listen to in Winamp, so you can
>just feel free to download it, or if you're
already subscribed, you probably
>already have it.
> Well, that's the scoop. I'm sure
there'll be a mountain of
>messages on this subject, so there you have
it!
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