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Sibelius BlogNewest Sib 7 update now runs on XP.
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Everything old is new again: Sibelius 7 now supports Windows XP
Posted: 02 Apr 2012 08:14 AM PDT
A computer running Windows XP, yesterday (courtesy Federica Testani on
Flickr)
When we released Sibelius 7 last summer, the minimum system requirements
jumped significantly: on Mac, we dropped support for Macs with PowerPC
processors, and specified Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard as the minimum supported
operating system; and on Windows, we dropped support for Windows XP. The
changes in requirements on Mac didnâ??t have much of an impact on our
customers: Apple have trained Mac users to expect that new applications wonâ??t
support many, if any, previous versions of the operating system, and the
writing had been on the wall for PowerPC Macs since Apple introduced the first
Intel-powered Macs way back in 2006.
But for Windows users, the lack of Windows XP support caused a good deal
of wailing and gnashing of teeth. It wasnâ??t a decision we took lightly: we
looked at the product activation statistics and compared them year over year,
and saw that Windows XP accounted for less than 10% of the total of product
activations, and that proportion was halving roughly every 12 months. So when
we were making the decision about which operating systems to support early in
Sibelius 7â?²s development, and we were weighing up features that would require
technology not present in Windows XP, we eventually decided that now was the
time for a break with the past, and that we would be cutting off only a small
number of potential new customers or upgraders. We expected the noise to die
down after a little while, and expected that we would pick up some of those
customers again once they had the opportunity to upgrade their systems.
Perhaps the group of customers most inconvenienced by this jump in system
requirements has been schools. Typically a school can only afford to upgrade
its hardware and operating systems once every three or four years. Even if the
school could afford to upgrade to Windows 7 itself, chances are the hardware
would need upgrading too. So we ended up cutting off quite a few schools.
So for all of those people still running Windows XP, either by choice or
of necessity, we have some good news: the latest Sibelius 7 update, version
7.1.2, now runs on Windows XP. (And the Sibelius Licence Server will also run
on Windows Server 2003 once more, too.)
Windows XP users wonâ??t get absolutely the same experience as customers
running modern operating systems: there is no DirectWrite text measurement and
display, so some of the impact of the powerful new text handling and typography
features in Sibelius 7 is lost; there is no support for multi-core CPUs in the
playback engine, so performance when running multiple virtual instruments on a
multi-core system will be comparable with Sibelius 6, which didnâ??t have
explicit multi-core CPU support; and the Quick Access Toolbar, which normally
draws embedded in the document title bar on Aero-based versions of Windows,
draws in a strip below the document title bar and above the ribbon.
Finally, Windows XP users should beware the full Sibelius 7 Sounds
library, which ideally requires a 64-bit system with at least 4GB RAM to get
the most out of it. You can still use Sibelius 7 Sounds on Windows XP, but I
would recommend using the Sibelius 7 Sounds (Lite) playback configuration, and
sticking to modest-sized ensembles.
If you want to try Sibelius 7 out on Windows XP for yourself, go and grab
the updated fully-functional 30-day trial from the Sibelius web site.
Related posts:
a.. Sibelius 7.1.2 update now available
b.. Sibelius 7 Essential Training on Lynda.com
c.. Come and see Sibelius at Musikmesse Frankfurt
d.. Reflecting on the ribbon
e.. Alexis Cuadradoâ??s â??A Lorca Soundscapeâ?? scored in Sibelius,
premieres in New York this month
f.. Sheffield comes Alight with Timothy Allenâ??s Olympic Triptych,
scored in Sibelius
g.. Rodrigo y Gabrielaâ??s album Area 52 made with Sibelius and Pro
Tools
h.. Sibelius 7 Music Notation Essentials book now available
i.. Sibelius helps Scarsdale students score hits for elementary
orchestra
j.. Sibelius 7 scores Software Line of the Year award for 2011
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