How are G-W and it's UK dealers going to get round the Finance Act in order to give what effectively is Extended Credit? George. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Nutt Sent: 18 July 2004 20:53 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sight Village - Window-Eyes Hi Ray, It will be 30 quid if I have anything to do with it, anyway, if they charge= =20 50 US Dollars as they say they will. By the way, you were slightly incorrect about the Office support. It will= =20 be for Office 2000 up, not 97. All the best At 01:15 18/07/2004, Ray's Home spake these words of wisdom >I know I have commented already on the rather uninspired presentation of >Window-Eyes at SV. Shame, because the upcoming releases, have been so= long >in appearing. > >The first will enormously enhance MS Word usability from, I think 97 >upwards, is going to be very well received I am sure. There will be a >separate MS Office menu in the control panel where Office specific= functions >can be tweaked, but unfortunately, this was not elaborated on. The other >major improvement will be the colour dictionary so all 256 basic Windows >colours will be named, or named to the nearest standard colour. > >The second installment of the Office makeover will address EXcel,= Powerpoint >and maybe other Office Apps. Seems GW have it in their sites to improve= the >help system in W-E too. > >More interesting perhaps, and I haven't seen this commented on elsewhere,= is >a proposed hire and purchase option. This means, if I recall Dan= Weirich's >words propperly, that you will be able to buy a $50.00 month's trial, and= if >you want to keep Window-Eyes, then pay further $50.00 installments until= its >paid for. Presumably if you do not renew in time, then the program would >revert to a demo copy - (Dan didn't actually say that though). > >GW are addressing the issue of affordability and defered payments in a= novel >way. Many have been asking for a defered payments scheme for a long time. >I was amused when Dan said, haltingly, 'I guess that would be =A330.00= here'. >To which I said, 'It should be'. We shall see. > >All the best. > >RAy. -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: application/ms-tnef -- File: winmail.dat ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** vacation ## d ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq