On 1 Nov 2009 at 0:04, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 31.10.2009 David W. Fenton wrote: > >> > On 31.10.2009 David W. Fenton wrote: > >>> > > Sibelius needs to do this sooner than Finale because of their slower > >>> > > release cycle. > >> > > >> > Now that's an interpretation I cannot follow. Although Sibelius has had > >> > a slower main release cycle, as far as I remember they were much quicker > >> > in fixing and updating for new OS requirements than Finale ever was. > >> > Finale is completely fixed on one main release a year, plus one > >> > maintenance, occasionally two when it gets too embarassing. I cannot see > >> > that Sibelius has a slower cycle in adopting new OSes. > > > > I didn't say anything remotely like that. > > > > What I said was that since Win7 came out very shortly after the > > release of Sibelius 6, they couldn't wait for Sibelius 7 to make this > > change, because that's not due for a while. > > Perhaps I have difficulties reading. You say they have a slower release > cycle, and I said I don't think that's true. As far as I remember Finale > 2k10 just appeared so they would have had every reason to do the same, no?
Sibelius releases every 2-3 years, Finale every year. That is pretty clearly a slower release cycle, and that if each company waited until their next release to adapt to this Win7 feature, Finale would manage it next year, and Sibelius not for another 2 years or so. So, no, I don't know that MM would be under pressure to implement this in a maintenance release now. It's not like it's a very important feature to begin with, so I'd think there'd certainly be no reason for a maintenance release just to implement this feature. Now, if they had another maintenance release in the works and could include it along with the other features, I think it would be likely they would. And, of course, that's likely what Sibelius did -- they had the 6.1 maintenance release queued up and implemented this Win7-only feature as a very small part of it because they had an opportunity to do so. Finale's next opportunity may not come until next year, and that's probably not a major issue. But I do think that if Sibelius had waited until their next major release (nearly 2 years in the future, if they follow their normal major release schedule), they would have been behind the curve. I don't know what's so difficult about this, Johannes, but you seem to have a knack for regularly failing to understand things that I state very clearly. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
