Agreed on all points.
However, Avid is known for "announcing" at NAB -- and "delivering" in June. If W8 drops in late 2011 or very early 2012 -- how far away from that timeline are we?
Furthermore, were I responsible for the Windows dev of MC v.6 -- I'd have to think good and hard about developing for W7 -- knowing full-well that thousands (or tens of thousands) of hours of labor would be staring me in the face just 6-12 months later -- in order to transition to W8.
No matter how you cut it -- that's a tough position to be in.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@...> wrote:
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> Based on Avid's track record, you are probably not going to see W8
> support for about 6 months after the official retail release.
>
> I am just hoping that MC 6 is much better threaded, 64 bit and a lot of
> performance tweaks (AMA, waveform redraw, continuous play mode, etc.).
> Windows 7 has been MS best OS to date IMHO.
> And not really excited to have GUI similar to their mobile OS :/
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> On 10/2/2011 1:39 AM, blafarm wrote:
> > I was just reading some articles about the projected release date for Windows 8 -- and how it represents a sea-change "under-the-hood" departure from previous Windows architectures (and supposedly for the better).
> >
> > And I wondered, is MC v.6 for Windows being written for W7 -- or W8?
> >
> > And, how could it even be written for W8? I mean, it's not been released -- nor has it been even qualified as being a stable OS platform for this application.
> >
> > And if it's being written for W7 -- how long will it take -- and how much effort will it take -- to port it, once again, for a radically different W8 environment?
> >
> > Mind you, I'm not advocating a mass conversion to an untested OS -- especially one that represents a such a big departure from the past. But if W8's new architecture ends up leaving the previous OS versions in the dust -- how long might we be stuck on W7?
> >
> > Just thinking out loud.
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