Richard wrote, in part asking:
That leads me to ask why Make Music doe not provide an upgrade path online where we could download the software. Or do they already provide that and I just could not find it on the site ?
To which I would note that they do provide online downloads for
maintenance releases (i.e., 2005a to 2005b). I suspect the main reason
they do not provide on-line releases for major upgrades (2003 or 2004 to
2005) is because of the size of the downloads required. Whereas for the
maintenance upgrades, the file sizes are on the order of 10 to 20 MB,
for the full version, besides the full version of the software, the
upgrade needs a new set of libraries (including plug-ins), template
files, user manual, and Adobe acrobat reader. Assuming the MAC and WIN
versions are roughly the same size, since they both fit on a CD-ROM,
let's assume they are 350 MB each. Even on high-speed access, this is
probably a matter of hours, and for those of us who are sufficiently
comfortable with dialup that we either have chosen not to, or have not
chosen to, upgrade to high speed, well, in my case (and the case of
anyone else using a 56 kbit download speed) I estimate the download time
required would be on the order of seventy hours for the full download.
Now, if there are 10,000 users of Finale using dial-up, that's 700,000
hours needed for the download. Since there are 8760 hours in a year,
that's about 90 modem-years worth of download time required, and you
still haven't accounted for the 37 users of Finale who still don't have
internet access at any speed.
ns
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