Not that Finale has been immune to bugs and crashes on mac though; nevertheless I've the sensation of a much stable environment after the B update.
Giovanni -------- Giovanni Andreani www.giovanniandreani.eu >Windows 8 is HORRIBLE. Microsoft deserves to go out of business because >of this one. The metro user interface is horrendous. Only a complete >corporate idiot could believe that users actually want to have a cell >phone interface on their desktop. > >As an operating system, 8.1 is functional, although there is absolutely >no excuse for Microsoft breaking so many apps and drivers EVERY TIME >they "upgrade" the OS. If you can get all the apps and drivers sorted >out, the operating system performs OK. > >With 8.1 Microsoft, said that they were restoring the Start Button >functionality, but they lied. They just made the Metro interface >worse. But they did make it more practical to stay away from the metro >interface most of the time. IMHO, Windows 8.1 is only tolerable if you >install the third-party Start8 product (which would be the smartest $5 >you ever spent.) With that, you can pretty much avoid most of Win 8 and >it then behaves like a newer version of Windows 7. > >This week, I received a new system for my music studio -- a high powered >custom-built machine. If I could have ordered that with Win 7 I would >have, but that wasn't an option. After spending 2 solid days installing >all my software and working through all the Win 8.1 issues, I thought I >had reached a stable point. Just then, Windows decided that my logon >password was invalid. I was crushed. I had logged on 30 times with >that password and now the system was completely inaccessible. Now I was >looking at the grim prospects of having to wipe my system and rebuild >the OS from scratch. That would have been a real mess because several >of my apps -- including Finale -- have convoluted authentication >schemes, and I would have had to contact each vendor to get licenses >released or re-issued. > >I had a hunch that this "invalid password" corresponded with a >networking interruption. I removed my wireless adapter and then I was >able to logon -- with that same password. Needless to say, the next >thing I did was remove the password, which isn't really necessary on >that machine. But this is just ridiculous. If you use Win 8.1 and have >your computer is a physically secure location behind a firewall, I'd >encourage you to remove the password requirement, or at least make sure >you have created the password recovery thumb drive. > >So bottom line: Horrible company. Horrible OS. Totally stupid idea. > >But as a Finale platform, it can be reliable with good performance. > > > > > > >On 6/8/2014 5:05 AM, Michael Lawlor wrote: >> I have been considering upgrading Finale (still using 2009) and with the >> demise of support for XP, will need to upgrade that first. Does anyone >> have any comments / observations on the usability of Windows 7 versus 8 >> or 8.1 or if I should even jump ship, and get a new machine running MAC? >> Regards, >> Michael Lawlor >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >Finale@shsu.edu >https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > >To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
