Right, and in the letter I got it said that 9.0 would be Q3 of 07, so
there you go.  There will be a standard and pro version of this new
program right?  I know that at my hospital there are still some machines
that are using 2000 Pro, while others have been upgraded to XXP Pro.





On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Walt Smith wrote:

> The difference is that Vista is a totally new version of the Windows
> operating system and that it's very different from XP. Given the timing, I
> believe that JAWS will support Vista at about the time that Vista begins to
> be shipped as the "standard" version of Windows on new systems early in 2007
> and that this will be an update to 8.0, not a new version release. If FS
> follows their normal pattern; and I know of no reason not to think they
> will; JAWS 9.0 won't be out until late in the year. They've normally issued
> a new version (6.0, 7.0, 8.0, etc.) late every year and released updates to
> that version during the next several months. Now that they've introduced the
> automatic update feature, I think you can probably expect updates more
> frequently than in the past.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 10:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Microsoft giving away free vista and office 2007
>
>
> Hi, what is the difference, and is this something that will be worked on
> with JFW 9.0?  I know that it will be a while before 9.0 comes out, and I
> just renewed my SMA that is good for the next few upgrades to JFW.
>