From: David W. Fenton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
I wish I had a nickel for every time this turned out to be wrong in the computer business. > > Your comments here just motivated me to try, but I just realized that > before I moved in 2000, I trashed the old Finale 2.01 disks/manuals. > Hence, in fact, you personally *cannot* install it on a new computer, although perhaps you could copy an existing install. If you had WinFin2.01 files you would essentially be SOL, at least without re-editing in a later Finale version. > I strongly doubt this. Microsoft has *never* introduced a version of > Windows that causes large numbers of software applications to fail to > work. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. Some day MS will introduce exactly what you described. Or else they will go out of business or morph into something else. Forever is a very long time, and 10-15 years in the computer business is nearly as long as forever. In fact, both the original feature-set of Longhorn and 64-bit Itanium Windows (now both apparently dead or on hiatus) contained the first rumbling threats of large-scale software obsolescence. That is, if you believe the trade rags. > WordPerfect 6.0's > problems on Win95 were all due to WP's non-standard programming > practices. Were Finale's early Windows practices "best practices"? I have no idea. If they weren't then you would be screwed. There is no going back an fixing a 15-yr-old software version. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
