the elephant wrote:MA has it nailed. As we both said, bug fixes - ALL of them - 100% of them - 100% of the time - NEED TO BE FREE TO THE USER! Sure, you offer two or three major updaters between new versions, but many bug fixes are only available on the PAID new version.
Plus, the entire idea of attaching the program to a year is ludicrous. This started after Finale 3.7 or so. This forces the company to deliver half-baked software on some sort of artificial timeline and seems to make the company culture believe that we want fabulous, new features (bloatware exercises, performance evaluation crap, GPO, etc.) EVERY YEAR! How about this? Dump the stupid year-based releases. Release bug fixes first until you have reached the finalized version where no new bug fixes will be offered. THEN offer new features. ONLY then. NO new features until everything else is working properly FIRST. Then, whenever that happens to be (certainly not annually on a schedule) offer fully de-bugged versions for retail sale that include new features.
I def. agree with Wade on the extra crap weighted on these new programs. These new programs shouldn't be like new video games. You should be able to run the new program just as easily, hardware-wise, as its predecessor. Sibelius 4 works fine for me, but Sibelius 5 crashed within a few minutes. What's up with that?
The Jackson wrote:I def. agree with Wade on the extra crap weighted on these new programs. These new programs shouldn't be like new video games. You should be able to run the new program just as easily, hardware-wise, as its predecessor. Sibelius 4 works fine for me, but Sibelius 5 crashed within a few minutes. What's up with that?
MA said, "Me....I want user-friendly default engraving, reasonable playback sounds, and not 137 different kinds of stuff that clog my hard drive and slow down my computer."
Exactly! That's why I'm still using Finale 2001. Not perfect -- but does mostly what I want.
Miraphone 5050 - Warburton BJ/RF mpc YEP-641S(recently sold), DE mpc (102 rim; I-cup; I-9 shank) Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches: "Always play with a good tone, never louder than lovely, never softer than supported." - author unknown.
It's interesting here in the Philippines. There is quite a successful Macintosh store at the Limketkai Mall near my house. Most of the people who buy a Mac for the first time are impressed with how the Macintosh Leopard handles Windows XP and Vista. When they use the Mac OS X system, they can't believe how simple it works... they think something is wrong.
I've had a problem here trying to get one of my computers to run either OS 10.3 or 10.4. The store here won't sell anything EXCEPT 10.5, which requires AT LEAST a G4 processor. My old iBook is a G3 I had repaired when I lived in Vietnam and I need it diagnosed for some problems it's having (I think they put in a CD drive instead of a DVD drive but no one will say... I want either a ComboDrive or a SuperDrive). They keep trying to sell me a Mac Book Air, thinking this will solve all my problems. (I'm also trying to save some money to start my language school/cultural museum in Lugait and my house there.)
I like either Panther (10.3) or Tiger (10.4) on the G3 because I can also use Classic (9.2.2) alone. Maybe that's a little too nostalgic of me, but that's the way I like it. Besides the iBook only has a 10 GB hard drive and Leopard (10.5) requires 9 GB (as well as the proper processor and everything else I don't have...)
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