a couple of months later. But recall that MC 5.5 was announced in mid
February 2011 and shipped mid March.
Microsoft hasn't announced a Win8 release date as far as I can tell.
Analysts (sheesh, analysts!) ranging from spring 2012 to early fall
2012. Looking at past releases, that suggests Avid should be able to
have their hands on a fairly complete beta within half a year.
Also, look at the slowish OS adoption in the Windows world. In the US,
Win7 overtook WinXP in April of this year, but XP was still just below
40 percent of installs (one of those installs is right next to me).
So what does this all mean, and how difficult will the transition from
Win7 to Win8 be for developers? Heck if I know. But I can see an
argument for Avid to put some effort into making MC6 take advantage of
what Win7 offers...
Whatever. We'll all know in 6 months what's going on. I guess.
Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about.
Jim
On Oct 1, 2011, at 11:39 PM, blafarm wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> > 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 :/
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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