Why the “Microsoft Word of music” is shutting down forever.
struck the professional music industry. On Aug. 26, the president of the Colorado-based tech company MakeMusic announced that the firm would be making “” to Finale, the pioneering and popular music-notation app that the firm had been selling and updating for 35 years. “Technology stacks change, Mac and Windows operating systems evolve, and Finale’s millions of lines of code add up,” MakeMusic’s Greg Dell’Era wrote in his first contribution to the company’s Finale-centric blog.
This dry, corporatese update provoked a stronger reaction than Dell’Era must have anticipated. The German electronic artist and blogger Peter Kirn deemed it “regarding the impending discontinuation garnered hundreds of aggrieved comments from conductors, songwriters, music students, academics, and general enthusiasts calling the move an “utter betrayal” that was “ridiculous” and “absolutely unacceptable.
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