I searched the web, took me 10 mins to find a 3rd party Fax for
Vista... Bill Gates is drinking to much.... oil.... to forget we need
to send our Resume by fax and Kinkos FedEx charges $1 a fax grin.
I sent out 30 fax resumes yesterday.... so I was interested in the fax
and scan features in Vista as if I get a job... ha. I will by a
Toshiba 64 bit with Vista.... wish list when I'm rich as Bill Gates
grin.
http://www.electricwindmillcar.com/resume.html
inventor84 @ att.net here
www.castelle.com
Castelle Announces Release of FaxPressâ„¢ 9.0 Software for FaxPress
Network Fax Servers
Microsoft Windows Vista Compatibility
Integration with Microsoft Office 2007
New MFP integrations include Ricoh, eCopy, EFI and Sharp
New User Interface
MORGAN HILL, CA – January 22, 2007 - Castelle (Nasdaq: CSTL), a leader
in ‘all-in-one’ network fax solutions for the business and enterprise
markets, today announced the release of FaxPressâ„¢ 9.0, the newest
version of software for its FaxPress family of network fax servers.
“FaxPress 9.0 was developed with both new and existing FaxPress
customers in mind,†said Scott McDonald, President and CEO of
Castelle. “The FaxPress 9.0 software suite has a new look and feel
similar to our FaxPress Plusâ„¢ software suite, and includes
compatibility with Windows Vista and Office 2007. With the release of
FaxPress 9.0, Castelle is one of the first fax server manufacturers to
provide fax software designed to work with Microsoft Vista and Office
2007. We also continue to provide compatibility with the leading
copiers and multi-function printers, allowing our customers to rely on
such devices in lieu of costly fax machines.â€
FaxPress 9.0 client and server software has been enhanced for greater
fax server reliability and performance. New features include:
Windows Vista and Office 2007 Compatibility
The FaxPress 9.0 client is compatible with all versions of Microsoft
Windows Vista as well as Microsoft’s new Office 2007 suite.
New Multi-function Product (MFP) Integrations
FaxPress 9.0 includes integration for Ricoh GlobalScan, eCopy 4, EFI
and Sharp OSA-enabled multi-function devices. Integrating a FaxPress
fax server with a multifunction device provides copier, scanner and
multifunction users with immediate access to an intuitive, user-
friendly fax interface. Paper documents are converted easily to
electronic fax files with the touch of a button, and once a document
is scanned, the copier, scanner or multifunction device is immediately
free for further use since all fax retries occur at the FaxPress.
New User Interface
One of the significant changes in FaxPress 9.0 is the user interface.
The FaxPress 9.0 client now has the same easy-to-use, intuitive
interface as FaxPress Plus.
MSI Installer
Network Administrators can now automatically install the FaxPress
client on networked workstations using the built-in Group Policy
features of Windows Server or by custom login scripting.
FaxPress 9.0 Availability
FaxPress 9.0 is now available. For information on software upgrades,
demonstrations or evaluations, please contact Castelle Sales at (800)
289-7555 or visit the Castelle website at
www.castelle.com.
Flexible and easy to use, Windows Fax and Scan helps you save time.
Windows Fax and Scan, available in the Business, Ultimate, and
Enterprise editions of Windows Vista, makes it easy to send and
receive faxes, scan documents and images, and share those items with
others-right from your computer.
Windows Fax and Scan in the Windows Vista operating system provides
flexible, integrated faxing and scanning capabilities that make it
easy to send and receive faxes, scan documents and images, and share
those resources with other users. Whether you are a home user or a
business professional in a small or medium-size business, the new
enhancements in Windows Fax and Scan can help you send information,
handle documents, and save time.
Easy-to-use Fax and Scan
Windows Fax and Scan is on the main All Programs menu of the Windows
Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate editions. It can be
installed as an optional component in Windows Vista Enterprise.
Windows Fax and Scan enables you to perform all faxing and scanning
tasks and manage all of your faxes and scanned documents from one
location.
Windows Fax and Scan offers several preset categories and folders to
help you organize your faxes and scanned documents more easily, and it
enables you to create customized folders. To file faxes and scans,
drag them into the appropriate folder, just as you file and organize e-
mail in Microsoft Office Outlook. Terminology and functionality
familiar to users of other Windows applications make using Windows Fax
and Scan simple and intuitive. In addition, Windows Fax and Scan
supports multiple user accounts on the same computer. This is
particularly useful for small businesses that have several employees
sharing a single computer. Different employees can log on to the same
computer to send faxes, and each one will be appropriately recognized
and identified as the sender of his or her own faxes. Instead of
receiving generic faxes from the business, customers and suppliers
will get the personal touch.
Faxing
With Windows Fax and Scan, sending and receiving faxes is as simple as
using e-mail. Just select New Fax from the File menu to get a fax
template with all of the fields you need.
The To line in the fax template links directly to your address book-
either the address book in Outlook or the Windows Address Book. Just
click the name of the contact to whom you want to send a fax, and
Windows Fax and Scan retrieves the fax number. If you prefer, or if
you are sending a fax to someone not listed in your address book, you
can type in the fax number instead. Next, you fill in the Subject
field and type any notes you want to add to the fax cover sheet.
Attach the document you want to fax, just as you would add an
attachment to an e-mail message, and the pages of the attachment
become the pages of your fax. You can send more documents in the same
fax by adding more attachments.
Scanning
Windows Fax and Scan offers one-click scanning of documents and images
from locally connected or network-connected scanners and multifunction
print/scan/fax devices. Windows Fax and Scan lists all of your scanned
files plus other useful information, such as the scanner used to
create the file and the day and time the document was scanned.
You can adjust the settings for documents you are scanning, selecting
the correct paper size and controlling colors and resolution, and then
store those settings as a scan profile. With Windows Fax and Scan you
can create and store multiple scan profiles to make it easy to get
consistent quality every time you scan, without the need to reselect
all of your settings for different types of documents and images.
Before you do a full scan of a document, you can use the Live Preview
feature to see how it will appear on your computer after the final
scan. Live Preview creates a low-resolution cached image of the
document that you can easily modify. You can use it to experiment with
changes and view them instantly.
Earlier versions of Windows offer scan support, but only for scanners
connected directly to your PC. Windows Vista improves scanning in
three key ways. First, it supports scanners that are connected across
a network, making it easy for you to share scanners with your family
members or colleagues. Second, it offers an enhanced user experience
by providing integrated support for scanning, faxing, and e-mail so
that all three features work together smoothly. Third, it enables you
to easily manage documents after you have scanned them into your
system.
Sharing scanned documents
Windows Fax and Scan enables you to set up routing lists for scanned
documents. From the File menu, choose Set Up Routing, and then
designate the e-mail addresses and server shares that should receive
your scanned documents. Whenever you scan a document from that
scanner, you can choose from among the routing lists you previously
set up.
For later sharing, right-click the icon for e-mail or faxing (both are
built in to the task bar of Windows Fax and Scan), which brings up an
e-mail or fax template, respectively, with the scanned file attached.
From there, you can send the e-mail message or fax as you normally
would.
Microsoft has a long history of including various applets with
Windows. Some of these applets, such as Notepad and maybe even
Solitaire, are virtually indispensable parts of the operating system.
Other applets, such as the Character Mapper, remain relatively
obscure. Microsoft is including a new applet with Windows Vista called
Windows Fax and Scan. Although there is nothing especially remarkable
about this new applet in and of itself, it is definitely worth paying
attention to. In this article, I will explain why.
What is Windows Fax and Scan?
Windows Fax and Scan is a new applet included with Windows Vista that
will allow you to send and receive faxes and to scan documents or
images. As I said in the introduction, there is absolutely nothing
remarkable about these capabilities. It has been possible to send and
receive faxes from a computer for many years now. In fact, most of the
time, if you buy a modem it comes bundled with desktop fax software.
The same thing can be said about scanning images or documents. It has
been possible to scan images and documents into a computer for well
over a decade. On the surface, the only thing that’s even remotely
remarkable about Windows Fax and Scan is the fact that Microsoft is
now integrating fax and scanning software into the Windows operating
system. This means that you will no longer be dependant on third party
software for faxing or scanning (although you will most likely want to
continue using third party software since most third party scan or fax
applications are more full featured).
Of course if Windows Fax and Scan was really as mundane as it appears
on the surface, then there is no way that I would be writing about it.
What’s important isn’t the fact that you can scan and fax through
Windows, but rather the implications of being able to do so.
Unified Messaging
Figure A shows a screen capture of the Windows Fax and Scan interface.
If you look at the figure, you will probably notice that it has a
striking resemblance to Microsoft Outlook. This is no coincidence.
Traditionally, Outlook has been used to store things like e-mail
messages, contacts, and calendar entries. However, when Microsoft
releases the next version of Exchange Server and the next version of
Outlook, they will be expanding Exchange and Outlook’s roles to allow
them to accommodate other types of information.
Figure A: The Windows Fax and Scan Interface looks a lot like
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft has a name for Exchange Server’s extended role. It’s called
Unified Messaging. The idea behind unified messaging is that the
Exchange Server information store will no longer be used solely to
store mailboxes and public folders. It will also be able to store
voice messages and faxes. Users will be able to access their voice
mail, faxes, and e-mail all through Outlook or through Outlook Web
Access..
So what does Unified Messaging have to do with Windows Fax and Scan?
Windows Fax and Scan gives us a little bit of a preview of what
Unified Messaging may be like. It also brings some of the Unified
Messaging capabilities (specifically fax management) to those who may
not have Exchange and Outlook. To put it into perspective, Outlook is
the mail client of choice for those who use Exchange Server. However,
Microsoft has always given us Outlook Express for free. Outlook
Express isn’t nearly as full featured as Outlook, but it will get the
job done for anyone who simply needs to be able to send and receive e-
mail, and who does not need access to an Exchange Server. Windows Fax
and Scan can be thought of in the same way. It is sort of the unified
messaging equivalent to Outlook Express. Windows Fax and Scan won’t
allow you to store faxes alongside your e-mail messages, and it isn’t
nearly as full featured as Outlook 2007 will be, but it does allow you
to send, receive, and manage faxes through an Outlook style interface.
Global Indexing
One of Microsoft’s original plans for Windows Vista was to include a
new file system called WinFS. WinFS was supposed to have been database
driven and thus allow global indexing of all files. Sadly, WinFS was
removed from Vista due to issues involving its reliability. Even so,
Microsoft still designed Vista in a way that makes it a lot easier to
locate various types of data.
If you look at Figure A, you will notice that there are a number of
column headers in the Inbox. As you might expect, these column headers
contain information on each fax in the Inbox. The reason why these
headers (and other headers not shown in the figure) are significant is
because of the way that Windows treats them. Windows Vista treats each
fax as an object. The various column headings display individual
attributes of each fax object. What this means is that eventually it
may be possible to search for a specific fax in the same way that you
can search for a specific e-mail now. The current beta of Windows
Vista does not seem to include a mechanism that’s specifically
designed for searching among faxes, but all of the pieces are in place
that could allow such a mechanism to easily be added to the operating
system or to third party software.
More on Unified Messaging
Right now you might be wondering why I chose to show you Windows Fax
and Scan as a glimpse of what Unified Messaging may be like as opposed
to just showing you the new version of Outlook. I would love to show
you what Unified Messaging looks like, but the beta version of
Exchange that I had at the time of writing this article did not yet
include the Unified Messaging component.
Even though I didn’t actually have a beta version of Exchange that
included Unified Messaging, Microsoft has released a significant
amount of information regarding the features that it will support.
Unified Messaging will link your company’s PBX (phone) system to your
network in a way that allows faxes and voice mail to be displayed
along side of e-mail messages in Outlook. There is also one other
feature to Unified Messaging that I haven’t mentioned yet though.
As you probably know, Exchange Server 2003 includes a component called
Outlook Web Access that allows users to retrieve their e-mail through
a Web interface that is designed to look like Outlook. Exchange 2007
will still include Outlook Web Access, but the Unified Messaging
component will add an additional feature called Outlook Voice Access.
Outlook Voice Access (OVA) is a verbal interface for Exchange Server.
Right now employees at your company probably have the ability to dial
a special phone number and remotely check their voice mail while away
from the office. OVA simply extends this capability. Users will still
be able to dial in and check their voice mail, but they will also be
able to have OVA verbally read them their e-mail messages and calendar
entries. Furthermore, users will be able to do many of the same things
through OVA that they now do through Outlook. For example, a user
could verbally respond to an e-mail over the phone. Likewise, a user
could change a calendar appointment or even schedule a meeting all
from a telephone.
Of course, Unified Messaging doesn’t just revolve around voice mail
and e-mail. Faxes are a big part of Unified Messaging. According to
what I have been reading, Exchange Server won’t be able to verbally
read a fax to you over the phone, but it will have some other
capabilities. For example, you will be able to forward a fax (or a
voice mail for that matter) just as you forward an e-mail message
today.
Castelle Announces Release of FaxPressâ„¢ 9.0 Software for FaxPress
Network Fax Servers
Microsoft Windows Vista Compatibility
Integration with Microsoft Office 2007
New MFP integrations include Ricoh, eCopy, EFI and Sharp
New User Interface
MORGAN HILL, CA – January 22, 2007 - Castelle (Nasdaq: CSTL), a leader
in ‘all-in-one’ network fax solutions for the business and enterprise
markets, today announced the release of FaxPressâ„¢ 9.0, the newest
version of software for its FaxPress family of network fax servers.
“FaxPress 9.0 was developed with both new and existing FaxPress
customers in mind,†said Scott McDonald, President and CEO of
Castelle. “The FaxPress 9.0 software suite has a new look and feel
similar to our FaxPress Plusâ„¢ software suite, and includes
compatibility with Windows Vista and Office 2007. With the release of
FaxPress 9.0, Castelle is one of the first fax server manufacturers to
provide fax software designed to work with Microsoft Vista and Office
2007. We also continue to provide compatibility with the leading
copiers and multi-function printers, allowing our customers to rely on
such devices in lieu of costly fax machines.â€
FaxPress 9.0 client and server software has been enhanced for greater
fax server reliability and performance. New features include:
Windows Vista and Office 2007 Compatibility
The FaxPress 9.0 client is compatible with all versions of Microsoft
Windows Vista as well as Microsoft’s new Office 2007 suite.
New Multi-function Product (MFP) Integrations
FaxPress 9.0 includes integration for Ricoh GlobalScan, eCopy 4, EFI
and Sharp OSA-enabled multi-function devices. Integrating a FaxPress
fax server with a multifunction device provides copier, scanner and
multifunction users with immediate access to an intuitive, user-
friendly fax interface. Paper documents are converted easily to
electronic fax files with the touch of a button, and once a document
is scanned, the copier, scanner or multifunction device is immediately
free for further use since all fax retries occur at the FaxPress.
New User Interface
One of the significant changes in FaxPress 9.0 is the user interface.
The FaxPress 9.0 client now has the same easy-to-use, intuitive
interface as FaxPress Plus.
MSI Installer
Network Administrators can now automatically install the FaxPress
client on networked workstations using the built-in Group Policy
features of Windows Server or by custom login scripting.
FaxPress 9.0 Availability
FaxPress 9.0 is now available. For information on software upgrades,
demonstrations or evaluations, please contact Castelle Sales at (800)
289-7555 or visit the Castelle website at
www.castelle.com.
