Jón Kristinn Cortez wrote:
It's strange...,
being on a help/discussion list for some application
and most postings for a long time are about how to
buy some other application!
Cortez
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Yes it is strange -- one would think that the corporation publishing the
application for which this list presumably exists would take it as a
serious sign that it is having a huge P.R. crisis and would do something.
Something cheap, something manageable, something which the competing
product has done for years -- put an official presence on this list who
can answer questions, gives hints of what will be fixed in an upcoming
interim patch update, discusses what is on the table for future uprades,
solves problems, soothes jagged nerves.
But as long as MakeMusic continues to keep silent on its exceptionally
buggy recent releases what else have we to discuss? Fin2k8 isn't being
used by many long-time Finale users (it sits untouched on my machine) so
there aren't any of the usual "Where is such-and-such in the menus?" or
"Why did they change such-and-such behavior? How can I achieve the old
results?" Nobody's got any questions because nobody's using.
MakeMusic should be ashamed of their lack of public presence to help
stop the hemorhaging of current users to Sibelius!
As David Fenton suggested, there may be a corporate reason for their
recent behavior (he suggested that there may be a total rewrite of the
Finale code going on behind the scenes, taking developpers and
development time away from fixing buggy code that they may be about to
abandon), but if we, those who wish to work with the product and many of
whom derive income from the product aren't told of this, we are left to
arrive at our own conclusions, and those conclusions for many of us have
lead us to investigate the competition.
So we're discussing what we're using, same as always. It's just that
more of us are using Sibelius to some extent or other, even if only just
to investigate it.
MakeMusic needs to address this issue.
--
David H. Bailey
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