[Les Cargill]

cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) wrote:

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:45:28 -0400, "~S~" wrote:


like I said, elitist, and insular


I'm late to the thread, and interested in the original topic - is
something happening to CuBase?

Overpriced it may be, but at least it works, and more impotrantly,
provides a driver model to deliver the real-time performance that one
needs when playing back recorded tracks and dubbing down new ones.

MS has been asleep at the wheel here. They wave "home theater", allow
media pimps to ram DRM crap into the works, and they wave "Movie
Maker", but they have done NOTHING to facilitate home audio multitrack
recording.

They don't-care with extreme prejudice. I suspect because
sequencing reeks of Amigaism. M$ was a "language" company, then
an "office apps" company. That has not much changed; the 'home
theater' thing is nothing more than a way to push box-store
sales ( which also sell big plasma TV one aisle over ).

They are, curously enough, not really in the DVR or cable
box business either. Frankly, it's probably out of their
technical depth - CBR data solutions are not the sort of
discipline they do. When a context switch is running 40 ms
worst case with your O/S, you just don't.

This is likely to change.

It smells like "keep 'em in their place" collusion with
the record industry, I have to say.


M$ couldn't understand the record company's day to day, much
less the business model. M$ will, however, be particularly
interested in the rent-deriving aspects of the IP front for
music. That's why they have a sympathetic ear for DRM. M$'s
big innovation was that software is *property*.

M$ has never been a speculative enterprise; it was cash-flow
positive from day one or close to it. M$ is a much more
throwback than you think it is, compared to other contemporary
businesses. Very staid, conservative and risk-averse, but
great gamblers at the same time...

Jobs was always interested in culltural work because... well,
because he used to hottub with Wavy Gravy and stuff. Or
so they tell me. Hippie wannabe feller. Remember the US
festival?

Really, if the platform is fast enough to do home video recording and
editing, then it's fast enough to do multi-track audio recording.
Does MS really think this is something that few ppl want to do?



M$ shivagitter don't shine in that corner. Ask somebody who
was in "multimedia" in the early '90s. Not me, 'course.




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