On 2 Aug 2006 at 16:09, dhbailey wrote: > We all know that Windows has gotten worse as the OS has tried to be > everything to everybody.
We don't know anything of the sort! Win2K was the best workstation version of Windows ever, and Win2K3 Server is the best server version ever. It came after WinXP but didn't incorporate the features of WinXP that were designed to make it "user friendly." The result is that it's a superb version of Windows. I don't see that there's any benefit to having the same kernel used for both desktop and server versions of Windows, but there is no OS that works any differently (all Linuxen use the same kernel for both, and OS X does, as well, so far as I know -- though I could be wrong on that). I don't see the example as comparable to Finale and the question of notation and sequencing. I would be happy if the sequencing capabilities in Finale were just updated to reflect the conventions and norms of UI in sequencers form, oh, say, 1999. Then again, a lot of the tweaking I do is made somewhat unnecessary by Human Playback. That's why I'm curious to see if the tweaks to HP in Finale 2007 address many of the drawbacks of previous implementations (which give insufficient end-user control over how HP interprets certain notational aspects). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
