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Originally Posted by Dave Boulden
It would be wonderful if they did, however the music "creation" industry is just not big enough a market for Microsoft to warrant creating a seperate fork of the the Windows OS. Compared to business and general home users, our industry (in terms of software sales) is small fry.
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Aye - we're far too tiny for MS to care about. There's something in the order of five hundred million living Windows installations in the world, and it's probably a fair bet that the two markets share about a fifty/fifty split of that figure.
Looking at the Cubase forums, they've had something like 30,000 members register with them. Cubase is one of the big ones. Even if you multiply that figure by a hundred, us musician types don't even register as one per cent of the market, and that's too low for them to even consider our needs in their mainstream OS, nevermind a dedicated fork.
It's not a problem, though. Vista's basically a lost cause, but XP's still an excellent OS.