Chris,
Did Eric mentioned which version of JAWS (Standard or Pro) will work
with any version of Vist? My guess is as follows:
JAWS Standard: Windows Vista Home Basic/Home Premium
JAWS Pro: Windows Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate *
* I don't know about Ultimate, but my guess is that it will require Pro.
Cheers,
Joseph
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Skarstad <toonhead@xxxxxxxxxx
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:01:54 -0600
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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