Hi Jack. My current screen reader is JAWS 6. It will cost me £190 to upgrade to JAWS 8, but God knows how much it would be to get JAWS 8 Professional. Moving onto WindowEyes, is I believe, £602, so perhaps I'm only talking about a difference of £200 or less. I never purchased JAWS 7. I'd be going from 6 to 8 for almost £200. Apparently, so I've been told, that I'm paying for version 7. This is a rip-off and it has been happening since I was on JAWS 3.5. As for your last point about the learning curve. I'm 53 years old now and my memory is as highly tuned as one of my hens. I do find retaining complicated information very difficult these days, perhaps a result of all the beer I take over the weekends. To make matters worse, I'd need also to learn how to use the Windows Media Center. However, I could keep my old computer for the stuff that I need to do quickly and spend some time each evening on the new computer. - A bright light just went off in my head! Very best wishes. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Goodfellow" <goodfellow1985@xxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:29 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Windows Media Center JAWS or WindoEyes > depends. what is your primary screen reader? do you use both? what > would cost less? and, ultimately, would switching to a new screen > reader environment be hard to learn?That's how i'd base my decission. > > Jack > > On 1/18/07, Andy Logue <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> Looks like my new computer will be a Windows Media Center. I'll have to >> upgrade to JAWS 8 Professional or WindowEyes 6, in order to access it. >> >> What do people think? Should I stick with JAWS or move to WindowEyes? >> >> I'd love to hear from Media Center users as there has been very little >> mail >> recently discussing this OS, which is surprising as XP Home appears to be >> on >> the way out, and most of the new computers that I have seen on sites over >> the last week have been Window Media Center machines. >> >> Best wishes. >> Andy >> >> >> ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- >> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] >> ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: >> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> ** and in the Subject line type >> ** unsubscribe >> ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the >> ** immediately-following link:- >> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] >> ** or send a message, to >> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq >> >> > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq