Re: Freedom Scientific Quietly Releases JAWS 8.0 Update Build 1166, or is that 1171?

  • From: "Rick Harmon" <rharmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:25:33 -0400

Hi Darrell,

Like I said, someone at FS made a big boo boo.  I doubt 1166 or 71 or 
whatever it's labeled was ever meant to be seen by the outside world.

Rick


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: Freedom Scientific Quietly Releases JAWS 8.0 Update Build 1166, 
or is that 1171?


Hi Rick,

It has finally been made unavailable as of sometime this afternoon, but let
me assure all of you that I am now running Build 1166, and I'm not sure I
like it at this point.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Harmon" <rharmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: Freedom Scientific Quietly Releases JAWS 8.0 Update Build 1166,
or is that 1171?


>I don't know either,
>
> When I try to update JAWS tells me I am running the latest update.  And
> Eric
> Damery told me the other   day by email that the next update won't be out
> till sometime in April.
>
> Rick
>
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Blake Sinnett" <frequency660@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:54 PM
> Subject: Re: Freedom Scientific Quietly Releases JAWS 8.0 Update Build
> 1166,
> or is that 1171?
>
>
> I'm just curious as to how this info was found out, since there's no
> download link or information what so ever on FS's site.
>
>
> From: "Rick Harmon" <rharmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Freedom Scientific Quietly Releases JAWS 8.0 Update Build
> 1166, or is that 1171?
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:40:08 -0400
>
> I'll bet someone at FS made a mistake in the release.  I was told by Eric
> Damery that the next update to JAWS probably would be sometime in April.
>
> Rick
>
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Freedom Scientific Quietly Releases JAWS 8.0 Update Build
> 1166,
> or is that 1171?
>
>
>          Hi.  When I checked for updates, I was told I was running
> the latest version, and I'm running build 1163.
> The interesting thing is that since others had reported seing build
> 1171, I made like I was going to atempt to download the latest
> version of JAWS from the FS website.
> But instead of just downloading build 1163 again, I slightly changed
> the file name to reflect the current build number. in other words, i
> changed it so the file name would be: J8.0.1171U_ILM.exe
>          To my surprise, it actually worked and I was given the
> opportunity to download it.  But since there is such confusion about
> build numbers and we don't even know what is changed in this latest
> version, I am going to hold off until I get official word from FS.
> and because of what happened last time with automatic updates, I
> think i'm going to stick with just downloading fresh copies from the
> FS website. I'll at least know I got a full version in case automatic
> updates screws up again.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>                          At 01:03 PM 3/21/2007, you wrote:
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> >Check out the following article and wait to update your copy of JAWS
> >until Freedom Scientific releases something official:
> >
> ><http://www.blindaccessjournal.com/2007/03/freedom-scientific-quietly-releases.html>http://www.blindaccessjournal.com/2007/03/freedom-scientific-quietly-releases.html
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