--- dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sibelius 5.1 is such a significant upgrade for > Windows that it requires > you to uninstall Sibelius 5.0 before installing 5.1 > -- it replaces > everything.
I don't see how the fact they make you install 5.0 before installing 5.1 tells us anything about the size or significance of the update. Installing over a previous installation is one way for them to verify that a legitimate, unaltered copy of Sibelius is already on the system - no updates for users of pirated copies. Furthermore, while it's common for companies to replace the application in its entirety, they DON'T want to have to force their users to download all of the extra content that gets installed with the CD/DVD installer (such as the sound libraries). Therefore, having us install 5.0 first is a means of allowing them to make the update package smaller, not larger or somehow more significant. > > This is the sort of upgrade for which Finale charges > us $90 each year. > AND Sibelius released FREE a soundset editor which > will make working > with any device (softsynth or hardware module) as > transparent as using > the built-in soundsets. Look at the features that were added. Those features are extremely small and not nearly as significant as the ones you pay for with either Finale or Sibelius. Sibelius upgrades cost close to twice as much as Finale upgrades. When I compare 2 consecutive releases of Finale to a single upgrade of Sibelius (which takes twice as long to come out), I see fairly comparable additions. Tyler __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
