Well Seigard, We have to differ. Skype has come a long way on the Mac as there is a key to hang up calls. You can also answer calls these days with ease and more.
I remember using jaws with Skype, and would experience the following on a daily basis. When trying to use Skype with jaws, my windows would frequently crash, lose speech, so had to reboot by forcing the system to shut down. At times, jaws would be sluggish. May be these days jaws is stable but I'd not touch it with Skype and for that matter, Itunes was another thing I'd never touch again with jaws. However, Skype is great on the I phone. Kawal. On Oct 25, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi Kawal, > > That is another blanket statement which is neither true nor has it ever been > so. I have been using Skype for Windows since 2005 along with the Jaws > scripts Doug Lee so generously makes available at no cost. > > I remember especially in those early years when a friend who had a Mac was > always jealous because the Skype for Mac product was usually a couple of > versions behind in terms of features although I assume that is maybe no > longer the case. However, even last year a friend in Germany told me it was > difficult to answer and hang up Skype calls on his Mac because there was no > way to configure any shortcut keys for this. I found him a script for this > or whatever those things are called on a Mac. He also told me you can't just > dial a phone number on a website simply by pressing enter on it as you can > in Windows browsers like IE or Firefox. > > Keep in mind that Skype has been a Microsoft product for the last year or so > and while they of course want as many people as possible to use Skype, there > will be a lot more integration down the road with their products and > services such as Office/Outlook, Hotmail/Outlook.com and Office 365. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Kawal Gucukoglu > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 3:03 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Mac verses Ipad > > Skype on windows is crap, well it was when I last used it. Skype on the Mac > is great. No scrips from jaws which used to crash every time. > > Kawal. > > On Oct 24, 2012, at 8:48 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> You can find a thousand people who have a thousand good and bad >> stories to tell about Windows, PC's and Macs. Yes, I have met plenty >> of people who bought a Mac and hated it. You can also buy any laptop >> and sometimes end up getting a lemon just like with any product. Just >> as you have your story with your Sony and your MackBook Pro, I am >> super impressed with my Acer TimeLineX Windows 7 laptop which I bought >> for $700 and I spend an extra just under >> $200 back last January to replace the 640 Gig hard drive with a 120 >> Gig Intel SSD. This is a 15.4 inch laptop, it's not as slim and light >> as a 15 inch MacBook Pro, but I also get close to 8 hours of battery >> life and it has a beautiful keyboard with numeric pad. Due to the SSD >> it boots Windows 7 in about 25 seconds, that's until Jaws is speaking >> in the log-on screen. I have no problems having iTunes open, my Sonos >> Controller, Outlook, several IE Windows, Skype in the background as >> well as 2 or 3 other of my business related applications like my point of > sale, accounting software and Excel. >> >> Yes, I do pay $100 a y ear to be up-to-date with Jaws, but let's face >> it, I used Windows XP for 8 years and never paid a penny to get any >> updates, service 2 or service pack 3. More good news is that Microsoft >> seems to be adopting a completely new pricing structure for Windows 8 >> which I understand will cost something like $50, maybe a bit more for >> the Pro version. In any case, I will definitely put Windows 8 on one >> of my PC's to check it out, but as many businesses I have no reason to >> upgrade my Windows 7 business desktops probably for at least another 3 >> to 5 years, in fact, many larger companies still happily run Windows >> XP which recently celebrated its 10 year anniversary. Tell me if you >> can buy a new Mac now and install their OS from >> 10 years ago, it's my understanding that there is no way it will work >> and of course there is no reason to do so if you are buying a new Mac. >> But then again you won't find many large corporations and by that I >> mean really big where fifty thousand computers are deployed which all >> need to run some sort of legacy software and have to be backwards > compatible. >> >> Don't get me wrong, I don't argue this way because I want to say >> Windows and PC's are better than OSX and Macs, but the fact is that if >> you compare Windows 7 and OSX both running on good hardware, both are >> excellent solutions and everybody has to decide what is best for >> him/her in their situation. Ron made a very good point and that is >> that if you are working for an employer whose IT infrastructure is all >> based on Windows and PC then that is what your reality is. Whether you >> prefer to stick with that on a personal level or use a Mac for >> personal use and deal with 2 very different systems that is up to > everybody to decide. >> >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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