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Vegas 10 won’t install on XP 64
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Because I’ve spent YEARS customizing XP Pro 64 to my liking in more little ways than I can remember, and changing to another version of the OS invites more problems than it solves.
And, secondly, because it is becoming apparent to me that Sony’s motivation in creating this unique problem situation to begin with is simply collusion with Microsoft to intimidate users into adopting a more recent version of Windows. Sony does this with impunity; it would like us all to drop DVD in favor of Blu-ray. Fortunately, all Blu-ray players play both systems.
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Sorry you feel that way.
You could partition off part of a hard drive (or use a different hard drive) to use for dual booting purposes. I do this and use my older install for testing and my newer install for just editing software. This way you don’t lose what you have but you gain the functionality you have been lacking… who knows, you may even see some improvements worth switching for.
j razz
https://www.jrazzcreations.com
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[Steve Browne] “… because it is becoming apparent to me that Sony’s motivation in creating this unique problem situation to begin with is simply collusion with Microsoft to intimidate users into adopting a more recent version of Windows.”
Wow, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that no one is following you! 😉
I think your conspiracy theories are unfounded. Stuff gets old and replaced by new stuff. Advances in hardware require advances in software. Sometimes developers go down a path and realize it’s the wrong way to approach a problem. XP64 is one of those. Microsoft realized that they went down the wrong path and made a course correction. You’re now stuck at a dead-end. It’s time cut your losses and to move on. It’s only an OS.
BTW, I would never go back to XP after using Windows 7. I have a dual boot system and I honestly haven’t boot the XP partition in over a year. I plan to format it and reclaim the wasted space when I need it.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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The circumscribed list of eligible OSes for Vegas 10 is suspiciously unique for “professional” software. XP Pro 64 is based on Windows Server 2003, has rock-solid stability and is immune to most of the security issues which plague even later versions of Windows. If I were to upgrade, I would upgrade to Windows Server 2008, but Vegas 10 wouldn’t install on that either.
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BTW, XP Pro 64 Service Pack 2 is dated March 13, 2007, which is not so long ago.
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[Steve Browne] “The circumscribed list of eligible OSes for Vegas 10 is suspiciously unique for “professional” software. XP Pro 64 is based on Windows Server 2003, has rock-solid stability and is immune to most of the security issues which plague even later versions of Windows.”
You are not understanding the situation. Microsoft no longer supports XP64. Therefore, no software developer in the world can support XP64 because the manufacturer has discontinued support. Sony as a software developer cannot base their business and support their customers on a platform that they can’t get support for from the manufacturer themselves. XP64 is unsupported! I don’t know how else to say this.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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[Steve Browne] “BTW, XP Pro 64 Service Pack 2 is dated March 13, 2007, which is not so long ago.”
It’s now 2010… 2007 was 3 years ago (12 web-years). That may not seem long ago for a human that lives 75 years but for a computer with an amortized lifespan of about 5 years (and a usable life-span of about 3 years) that is a long, long, long time to go without a patch.
The more important question is: When will SP3 come out? The answer, of course, is never because XP64 has been discontinued. So old or not, it’s a dead-end. It’s over. No one is building new products for it. This is not a “Sony” thing as you are making it sound. This is every software developer thing.
Sony Vegas is very tied to Microsoft and technologies like the .Net Framework. There was some fix in SP3 that Sony needed and XP64 didn’t have. It’s not a conspiracy. More than likely, it’s bug that Microsoft won’t fix in XP64 because it’s been discontinued.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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“Sony Vegas is very tied to Microsoft and technologies like the .Net Framework. There was some fix in SP3 that Sony needed and XP64 didn’t have. It’s not a conspiracy. More than likely, it’s bug that Microsoft won’t fix in XP64 because it’s been discontinued.”
That touches on the core question: is Sony’s position a LEGAL issue of OS “support”, or a CODING issue of a bug. All MS .Net Framework releases (through 4.0) install on XP Pro 64 without qualification.
However, I see that Canopus Edius 6 has the same install limitations. (sigh)
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You should be grateful (and so should we). Sony has taken the time to insure that what they need in the OS is present. If they did not, you would be bombarding the forum with complaints that Vegas installed on a discontinued and unsupported OS, but then encountered random problems for which there are no explanations.
NO software developer is going to accommodate a potential market of one person. That is not a conspiracy. That is solid business logic.
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>>> And, secondly, because it is becoming apparent to me that Sony’s motivation in creating this unique problem situation to begin with is simply collusion with Microsoft to intimidate users into adopting a more recent version of Windows.
Steve, do you mean to suggest that Microsoft has an innate need to develop new and better products that will keep an income stream coming in, so that they can pay their employees, and make a profit?
Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
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