I don't remember NVDA users bashing JAWS. actually, hang on.
What's New in NVDA
2018.4
New Features
• New braille tables: Chinese (China, Mandarin) grade 1 and grade 2. (#5553)
• Replied / Forwarded status is now reported on mail items in the Microsoft Outlook message list. (#6911)
Changes
• "Report help balloons" in the Object Presentations dialog has been renamed to "Report notifications" to include reporting of toast notifications in Windows 8 and later. (#5789)
• IN NVDA's keyboard settings, the checkboxes to enable or disable NVDA modifier keys are now displayed in a list rather than as separate checkboxes.
• NVDA will no longer present redundant information when reading clock system tray on some versions of Windows. (#4364)
• Updated liblouis braille translator to version 3.7.0. (#8697)
Bug Fixes
• In Outlook 2016/365, the category and flag status are reported for messages. (#8603)
• When NVDA is set to languages such as Kirgyz, Mongolian or Macedonian, it no longer shows a dialog on start-up warning that the language is not supported by the Operating System. (#8064)
• Moving the mouse to the navigator object will now much more accurately move the mouse to the browse mode position in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Acrobat Reader DC. (#6460)
• Interacting with combo boxes on the web in Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer has been improved. (#8664)
Changes for Developers
• gui.nvdaControls now contains two classes to create accessible lists with check boxes. (#7325)
◦ CustomCheckListBox is an accessible subclass of wx.CheckListBox.
◦ AutoWidthColumnCheckListCtrl adds accessible check boxes to an AutoWidthColumnListCtrl, which itself is based on wx.ListCtrl.
• If you need to make a wx widget accessible which isn't already, it is possible to do so by using an instance of gui.accPropServer.IAccPropServer_impl. (#7491)
◦ See the implementation of gui.nvdaControls.ListCtrlAccPropServer for more info.
Changes for Developers
• Updated configobj to 5.1.0dev commit 5b5de48a. (#4470)
damn, that's already longer than JAWS 2019, and we're talking of, beta! the fact is, JAWS back in the days, really was great, from what I'm seeing, especially on older versions of JAWS, and windows. the question is, what happened? what happened to the old days of JAWS? why did it go down hill the way it has? I think there's a difference between bashing, and constructive, factual, complaints. I'd bring it up myself, but not having a valid JAWS license, we all know how far it would get...

I just tried the beta, and it does speed up the start time on win 10. On my 7 PC jaws 2018 starts immediately after the startup chime, but on 10 there's a 10 second delay. That's completely gone with 2019. I now view the Jaws SMA as a subscription fee, but it's still worth it because jaws does have some unique and powerful features, and it just feels smoother to use probably due to familiarity. As for constructive criticism versus bashing, you have to be able to put your hand on your heart and say you want both jaws and NVDA to be the best they can be so that every blind user has the greatest opportunity to use a PC effectively. If you're hoping jaws will fail, then your criticism won't be constructive. At the risk of sounding self-righteous, I pay for jaws and donate to NVDA, , so any criticism is always in the hope things will improve rather than in the hope it will lead to downfall.

@Enes, could you guide me on how to enable UIA for office on NVDA? I would highly appreciate it.

Eventually they will, but for now UIA support is highly experimental and thus hidden. As somebody said, nobody is really bashing jaws as a whole. But this changelog is just bad. Echoing of tab key is the most ridiculous thing ever. We realize our users cannot change that setting, so we will just do it for them, and hey that's a feature right there even though it's not coded, just changing one flag. Jaws was one of the first screen readers, and thus should have everybody's respect. I am talking about modern tech and recent Jaws updates though, where it has very little respect and just feels very, very rushed. NVDA is open source, it has it's flaws, but it also has a strong community behind it so even if NV access does not do anything, there will be something for a new version. Lots of recent new features in fact do not come from NV access at all. Automatic braille display detection is a great example.

It is the correct file, but you do not have extensions enabled and thus it only says NVDA.

post 30. I honestly thought a lot about whether to post this, or whether to drop it. but I feel like I should post it.
while I completely agree with you, that the best way this would be is if all 3 screen readers had their own powerful features, and possibilities. however, when a company more or less tells me when I should upgrade, because, well, you know, if I can't upgrade at the designated time, I'll be paying twice as much, I somehow lose respect to that company. it's all well and good, if you have offers every now and then, and or have a set, stable price. but the way they're approaching it, even on the FS podcast, just really got me. and looking at the change log, just, wow... I'll continue supporting narrator and NVDA if and wherever I can, and hopefully freedom scientific will get back to the market, eventually. plus, even if we wanted JAWS to fail, that won't happen, anyway. too many schools, organisations, and users.

For those wondering about the screen reader side of Dolphin  Computer Access (at least for USA customers,) you can find more here:

https://irie-at.com/computer-access/

BTW, they also have an "annual" option now for keeping up with their products.

PS. Considering Dolphin products aere the only ones to have NLS and NFB  Newsline built-in to the screen reader itself, ... Well,

@39:
Hmmm, lets see.
Jaws home addition costs $1020, I've just checked that out my self now.
Lets see how much it would cost in other currencies:
3,825.51 Saudi Riyal.
3,746.66 UAE Dirham.
873.06 Euros.
775.82 Pounds.
1,317.70 Canadian Dollar.
6,376.68 Turkish lira
etc.
Keep in mind that you will pay even more for it, doesn't matter if you get it through a dealer or if you get it from fs them selves, well I am not sure if they can sell you the thing or they will direct you to a dealer, either way you will pay more a lot money than what I showed you above.
Lets assume that you gonna buy it from them directly to save your self from the extra money that you will hand to the dealer, you gonna pay more because if your credit card currency is the euro currency as an example, the bank will charge you for the exchange rate plus the charges for the exchange rate from fs as well.
It's just, a lot of money that someone is going to spend when they have a screen reader that is faster, lighter, and doesn't mess with stuff it shouldn't mess with, and best of all, it's free.

Okay. to those who say it has added many new, exciting, interesting things... .. can you please explain exactly what is interesting about this?
Faster JAWS Startup with Grace Period Authorization
its just... faster. its an improvement, not a feature. That they had to describe their weird voodoo sorcery into highly technical language and slightly reveal a top trade corporate secret does not make that an addition, nor a feature.

Separation of Office Scripts
what, again, is interesting about this? this is.. a change that hopefully improves something... like faster navigation on large docs and finally, more accurate, proper braille implementation. No addition here.
Improved Performance in Office 365 Applications
again, nothing interesting. They even repeat the separation of the scripts. Its a redundant thing, even.

Audio Ducking Support for Windows 10 blah blah blah.
a bug fix, not an addition.
TAB Key No Longer Echoed
what is so interesting about this? if this is enabled by default and I am used to hearing tab ALL of the time, I would actually think the upgrade broke something.

Seriously, to make my screen reader go.. "Oh! you have just plugged a braille display, I will start using it right away!" is: 1. convenient, 2. almost magic, 3. Something I could turn on or off if desired, its an addition. I can live without it but then again, it can make life easier in some situations. And that is just an example.
ah yes and NVDA wraps. If you cannot fin it then an add on will certainly do it for you.. but again, I love to know when I have reached the end of the page for certain. But its just me.
NVDA detected and signaled spelling errors since at least last year. That you are excited that jaws will hopefully, and at the mercy of freedom whatever do this someday, well... I hope that becomes true... but again, it shows its ahead of the times in some aspects. I rarely use audio ducking as well, but hey its there and it has really saved me inn some situations... never given me any surprises like.. oh, hey its broken so pay us about 600 dollars (the price of about two months worth of very fine groceries by the way) and we will hopefully get that fixed in the next.. uh, major upgrade.
And regarding handling of licenses: its a gray area.. if you like the performance changes and improvements because of the changes in software protection, that's good, I would appreciate that as well
If you love paying for an upgrade that is more a showstopper than an actual .. "we care about our customers and thus will have a dedicated beta testing team and will resolve issues, even minor ones"then I guess that is also a way to roll.
I believe some of the stuff had already been explained as to why jaws has not improved too much or added worthwhile features... its because only a smaller 10% of the user base wrote to fs about them.. and fs ignored them.. after all, what is 60 thousand bucks to them when they already have the braille initiative .. erhmm, monopoly already running? not a loss, so they of course will ignore everything and just keep on muting the start menu key because oh, that sells to the schools and bbc news.
Case in point, I have written to their oh so professional, mature, incredibly prompt support department 5 times for the past month or so regarding their biggest scam, the packmate... I have an issue and the person using it just lost their job because their technology, pristine, reliable, high quality, interesting technology failed them.
But what, they cared oh so much about it that my calls and e-mails went practically unanswered. I kept on being assigned case numbers and then rejected.. its all a beautifully designed bureaucracy because of me being an international customer.
And int he meantime, I think 10 dollars (you can buy a week worth of groceries here with that you know) in Skype credit went down the drain calling their quote, direct.. unquote numbers.

  so get.. understand this... its not jaws itself that is bad,its what and especially how! they are shaping it that its horrendous.
I used jaws for about 12 years too (since 1998 until about 2010).. when it was good and then.. it lamentably has just bluffed. No other description for it.

Actually to me this seems like one of their best updates yet. I think that even though I haven't used jaws for 5 or 6 years, I should definitely purchase the product now because of these groundbreaking new changes.

VFO customer support is a joke! Every time I've written to them they have been less than helpful. I find it very sad. It seems to me as though they're more concerned with getting as much profit as possible out of businesses and end users rather than creating a quality product. I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised. When you buy out all your competitors, you become a monopoly and can do what ever you want because you're the only game in town.

Isn't VFO run by sighted people now? I heard the quality was much better when Ted Henter was in charge.