Re: Interesting news
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I think the two things we can be worried a bit about is that Microsoft
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had a deal with GW Micro for the Office venture. Point being that, now these two huge companies are rolled into one, Microsoft might start treating them as some sort of only voice of the blind community or the major screenreader group they will only work with since businesses buy their products? The other episode I think we must not forget, is what happened a few years ago where Freedom Scientific products stopped supporting older braille displays and also made manufacturers pay for these so-called "secure" driver scheme, trying to also channel users to switch to the focus range. It will be interesting to see what happens, but I am really hoping that the other very few remaining screenreader manufacturers or groups will survive. Since NVDA is free and developed by a universal community, I think I don't fear as much for it as compared to maybe the smaller proprietory manufacturers, but that is hopefully assuming that this new huge company doesn't somehow get preferential treatment.
On 6/14/16, Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@nvda.open.source.it> wrote:
What's in it for Microsoft to bother with such a move?
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