Bruce and list,Yeah, I won't upgrade to Vista right now (if Freedom Scientfific ever release JAWS version that is compatible with .net 3.0 and can run under Vista, that's when I'll upgrade mine to Vista). At this stage, the best option is to wait for Windows XP Service Pack 3. You can continue use XP until 2012 (that's what Microsoft said).
Cheers, Joseph
----- Original Message ----- From: James Homuth <james@xxxxxxxxxxx To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date sent: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:35:56 -0500 Subject: Re: Vista!
Trust me Bruce, at the moment, Vista is
fairly bugged. And, the 3d
effects may be what the sighted community
wants, but I still don't
see a need to upgrade right away, more so if
you can't see said
visual effects. All it is is basicly XP
service pack 3 made pretty.
If you don't need to upgrade, then it's not
practical to do so. And
judging by what I've read, programs that are
designed to work with
Vista will still work with XP, so you're not
losing much. The only
significant changes are really being made
behind the scenes, and your
average computer user won't really care about
them anyway.
James, List Admin At 11:49 AM 1/31/2007, you wrote:Do you know that it's full of bugs? Do you
know that the security
changes in Vista aren't what the public ahs
been demanding? Do you know
that the visual changes being made aren't
what your average computer
user wants? Sounds to me like you're making
an awful lot of groundless
assumptions, unless you're in the loop more
than the rest of us, in
which case I'd like to hear more.On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:48:10 -0600, "Shawn
Keen" <dkeen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
said:
Ya, same feeling here. Why do they have to
go and mess up a good thing!
xpsp2 has to be the most stable! Now they
go and release something full
ofbugs to fix with a few large service packs.
I guess it's money witch
isn'ta bad thing. oh well. I'll stick to xp as
long as possible.
----- Original Message -----From: "Blake Sinnett"
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To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:20 AM Subject: Re: Vista!
Yes, I'm probably going to wait until the
first service pack
comes out toeven think about switching to vista. As of
right now, I think Vista is
just a pricy service pack to xp. There just
isn't too many
things new withit that could justify me upgrading. Perhaps
when Vista sp1
comes out, I'llreevaluate things.
From: James Homuth <james@xxxxxxxxxxx Reply-To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Vista! Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:31:43 -0500
That's alright, Microsoft dropped the ball
when it comes to
Vista anyway.Personally, anyone who wants to go out and
buy it on the day
it's releasedshould wait 6 months anyway. At least until
the first service pack comes
out. Of course, the only reason I say that
now is because I end up
receiving most of the tech support calls for
Vista. At least
where Dell'sconcerned.
James, List Admin At 04:45 PM 1/30/2007, you wrote:Yep, Rick, what I think Eric meant was that
you'd have Vista
support, butonly when they get around to it. I guess
they figure that most people
won't be running Vista on the day it's
released, and in some
cases they'reright. But what about those who choose to
get really brave and install
Vista on their machines? You'd better have a
copy of one of the other
screenreaders at your dissposal or you're
kinda S,O, L.
I think JAWS is a great screenreader, but I'm
just disappointed that FS
wasn't ready. they dropped the ball.
At 03:30 PM 1/30/2007, you wrote:Chris, Rick and list,If someone is brave enough, then that person
can buy a version of Vista
(hopefully Ultimate) and see if JAWS 7.0 and
above are supported (or if
8.0 does work with AERO interface). Cheers, Joseph
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Harmon"<rharmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxTo: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date sent: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:26:20 -0500 Subject: Re: Vista!
Hi Chris,
I thought Eric Dammery promised Vista supporton launch day when 8.0 wasreleased? Did I misunderstand FS here.Looked out on the website anddidn't find any mention at all. I guess thatis why FS refused to go on ACBradio main menu tonight with Jeff bishopbecause they have no product forvista. Congrats to the other readers thatgot it right and support Vistatoday and not whenever they feel like it.
Rick ..
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead@xxxxxxxxxx To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 4:20 PM Subject: Re: Vista!
As far as I know, JAWS is not officiallysupported under WindowsVista. To my knowledge, the onlyscreenreaders that officiallysupport Vista are Window-eyes, Hal, and Idunno if you'd even countthis as a an official screenreader, butFreedom Box System Access isalso supported under Vista. It's too badthat FS appears to havedropped the ball on this one. If you're a JAWS user and you want Vista,you're screwed.
At 03:09 PM 1/30/2007, you wrote:Good point yes.
Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert S.Batchelor"<leehigh73@xxxxxxxxxxx To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:11 PM Subject: RE: Vista!
NONE, until you check out in depth thehardware requirements for VISTA...you might need to update some of yourhardware
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