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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.

Yes sadly Microsoft probably see very little need commercially, for a dedicated Media version of Windows (not to be confused with Windows MCE).

I doubt it will happen anytime soon but something like Ubuntu Studio would be simply fantastic on the Windows platform especially a 64 bit version (which Ubuntu Studio also offers). Access to more ram for native x64 versions of Adobe with CS4 (end of this month), Vegas 8.1 e.t.c would really benefit users but on a dedicated high end media x64 OS for Windows, that would be great.

Having said that as a Vista x64 user I think there is still plenty of mileage in using apps like Sonar 7, Vegas 8.1 e.t.c as they offer native x64 versions already and one can carefully tweak Vista to get a very stable and reponsive OS for Audio / Media work today.