Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows

  • From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:07:42 -0400


If Microsoft ever redesigned their OS to eliminate the keyboard, every organization for the disabled would scream bloody murder and flood the courts with class-action lawsuits against Microsoft for violating the ADA. So the keyboard isn't going away any time soon. Microsoft's reputation has been so badly tarnished by previous lawsuits and the Vista debacle that they will tread very carefully into new technology that is not blind-friendly. Bill Gates is just an arrogant jerk whose technology pronouncements aren't taken very seriously anymore. Microsoft no longer has the clout it once had, so let's not get all bent out of shape over this issue. ----- Original Message ----- From: "orhan deniz" <orhan.deniz63@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows


See, that's the problem with us blind ppl. Just wait, be a bit patient, and relax! Hell, keyboards will be here for a long time. This would even effect sighted secutarries etc who used a keyboard. It's just total non-sense to think that the keyboard will be wiped out with the new evolution of touch screen. That's ridiculous! BTw, as expressed in earlier posts, this will be an option. And, if this was gonna happen, Freedom scientific, GW micro, dolphin, serotek etc all work with microsoft. Do you guys realise how much bitching and moaning would take place between AT companies etc?
Anyway, just my two british pouns worth lol.


Orhan.
----- Original Message ----- From: "ann medlar" <amedlar1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows


Hey Yardbird,
I watched an interview with Bill gates and Steve ? the CEO of Microsoft on
CNBC and according to the interview in the future there will be no more
keyboard andno more mouse.  I am sure that accessibilities will be
considered.  Believe me I think it is a ways away but I think we are
evolving to an operating system that might and I mean might be seamless for everyone. A few months ago I remember Bill Gatesstating that allbooks will be available on web. It is just a matter of time once the copyright issues
are worked out.  Pretty soon I think information will be available to all
regardless of modality.  Let's hope so.  Imagine no added costs for
accessibility.  Cheers in advance.
Ann

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows


P.S.

So, does this mean that you believe the person you replied to is spreading
eisinformation about the future of Windows in order to turn some of us
toward considering a Mac or a Linux computer? That's the sense I get from the Wikipedia explanation, that it means to spread negative rumors about a
product in order to turn potential customers off to it and propel them
toward the product made by the company tha'ts disseminating the FUD.

Or is it now sometimes used more casually, so that there doesn't have to
be
a real or implied motive behind it in that sense if you just want to
invoke
the expression in a more general way, for effect?

thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brandon B" <serrebi101@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows


FUD,  means
Fear, uncertainty and doubt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C_uncertainty_and_doubt
Sorry for the confusion.
Yardbird wrote:
> ah, here's an opportunity to learn a new technical word. Fud. What's a
> fud.
> Is it a mistype of an all-capitalized acronym, FUD? If so, what does
that
> stand for? Or is it a word, in which case what does it mean? any
relation
> to
> Elmer Fudd?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brandon B"<serrebi101@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:<jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
>
>
> Just because a touch interface is optional, doesn't mean it's the
> default. Windows seven would fail if your fud was the case because > many
> hardware offered out at launch wouldn't be totally ready for this.
>
>
> Jim Talley wrote:
>
>> Microsoft unveils touch-screen Windows
>> Microsoft Corp. said its next operating system will be made for
>> touch-screen applications, an alternative to the computer mouse, and
>> its top executives
>> reaffirmed interest in joining forces with Yahoo Inc.
>>
>
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