[jaws-uk] Re: Slightly off topic
- From: "Nigel" <stoppard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:26:48 +0100
John,
When you next upgrade, why don't you buy a Mac?
McNigel
----- Original Message -----
From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 1:57 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Slightly off topic
> Roll on the day that happens. I only hope that when it does Microsoft give
> decent support for any problems with it. Although I appreciate that if
> Microsoft did incorporate a screenreader worth the name into Windows
> screenreader manufacturers would complain, but that's not my concern.
> Wouldn't it be nice just to pay for one product instead of several, and
> not
> to be expected to fork out hundreds of pounds just to enable us to access
> what is accessible to the sighted user.
> Linux have done it, and so have Macintosh. Why not Microsoft?
> John.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nigel" <stoppard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 1:32 PM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Slightly off topic
>
>
> I believe the market for screen readers is comparatively small so it will
> not be at the top of MS's priority list. Also MS has recently tried to
> improve it's security in Vista only to have companies currently offering
> third party security products complaining of unfair competition. I can't
> imagine screen reader companies being too happy if MS attempts to take
> away
> their business. MS has done this in the past of course when it wanted to
> get into the word processor market and deliberately crushed a rival word
> processor product by giving them very little information on how windows
> would work at the time they introduced windows three point one. This
> meant
> there rivals product was crap in comparison to MS's.
>
> You can expect MS to take an interest in controlling the screen reader
> market when they have taken over everything else.
>
> Nigel
> You vote Tory, you get a Tory Government. You vote Labour you get a
> Labour
> Government with Tory policies.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:08 AM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Slightly off topic
>
>
>> Hi Dorothy, that's a question I've been asking myself for a long time. I
>> can
>> see no reason why they shouldn't. I can only think that they consider
>> blind
>> people to repbe too small a group to bother. I would hope that one day
>> they
>> will. I had hoped that Vista, along with all its other bells and whistles
>> would incorporate a decent screenreader, but it's only got Narrator. The
>> only improvement is that you'll be able to use SAPI 5 voices with it.
>> John.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dorothy Ingram-Gorban" <dorothy.ingram-gorban@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:25 PM
>> Subject: [jaws-uk] Slightly off topic
>>
>>
>> Did anyone listen to Opinion on Radio 4 this morning at about ten to 9.
>>
>> A Journalist was talking about the "Richest Man on the Planet" seems Mr.
>> Bill gates, is that man. Journalist said how it had changed the City
>> greatly. What has Microsoft to do with Jaws? Well can anyone explain how
>> easy is it to use Jaws without Microsoft? Would it be easier for
>> Microsoft
>> to serve our needs without Jaws? I think this is a fair question.
>>
>> Dorothy.
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