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Robert wrote:I find it remarkable that Nikon act retrospectively with their software.
As a developer they will have had access to W8 since it's beta release, long before public release, maybe a year before? How come they suddenly wake up and weeks after the release of W8 make a statement like that?
I thought they had dropped support for SCSI years ago?
Nik 2 plugins don't work with my Mac OS and haven't for some considerable time.
The software compatibility transition should be seamless, not an afterthought.
I must be reading that differently.
I see this as Nikon taking the opportunity to 'retire' some of their earlier software versions by default. Computing (PC and MAC) is full of non backward compatilbility. Why should nikon be the only ones to continue support for all its old software?
I wasn't suggesting Nikon should continue to support legacy software, or hardware, quite the contrary. More that their reaction shouldn't be of the knee-jerk kind, these things should happen behind the scenes during the beta stage in my opinion and ready to roll out a day or two after the new OS.
While I know from bitter experience the short lifespan of hardware and software, it can be very vexing but I wouldn't like to be stuck in a time warp. The digital world is evolving fast and smaller faster computers and cameras are continually being released, each generation trouncing the predecessor.
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Robert.