On 9 Jul 2007 at 18:17, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 05:40 PM 7/9/2007, David W. Fenton wrote: > >There is no more sense in supporting WinXP and not Win2K than there > >was in support Win98 and not Win95. The differences between the two > >paired OS versions are so slight as to have no possible > repercussions >for programs like Finale. > > With all due respect David, because I know you speak from a position > of experience, are you sure that things like graphics and sound are > that similar on both platforms? The system requirements for Fin08 > don't list anything in particular that catches my eye, but I don't > know enough about the inner workings of those areas (in Windows or in > Finale) to say definitively.
>From the standpoint of APIs, no there's no real difference. It could be that it is something like GPO that forces MM to not support Win2K, though I don't really see any technical reason why that should be the case. In terms of graphics, there's no difference between Win2K and WinXP. Vista is another ballgame entirely. > At any rate, "not supporting" Win2K is different from "won't run on", > as I've said before. It may be simply that testing Finale on WinXP and > Vista -- and having customer service be aware of issues -- is all that > Makemusic can handle. I would guess that Fin08 will likely run fine on > Win2K, but if you run into problems, MM may decline to troubleshoot. > > (Also, I think it may be that Kontakt and FinaleGPO won't install > under Win2K.) As I said, outside dependencies could cause that, but there is really no technical reason of which I'm aware why the makers of Kontakt and GPO could not support Win2K. The changes introduced in WinXP really weren't at that level (indeed, WinXP was mostly a surface-level reworking of Win2K). -- 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
