Using a political analogy, I long ago took the view that 'resigning in protest' has, as a general rule, short term and mostly dramatic effect only. It ultimately removes you from discourse and the capacity to agitate for change from within. There's definitely a place for throwing bricks from outwith the building as revolutionaries are wont to do, but only when all attempts at reasonable dialog have come to nothing, in my view.
Returning from all this rather adversarial sounding head-in-the-clouds stuff to the present reality, once you remove yourself from the update chain, it becomes harder and harder to engage with peers, and more expensive and difficult to relearn the longer you postpone the almost inevitable return to the fold, and humbly declare your undying love for Big Brother.
I did indeed shell out for Sibelius 7, but then proceeded not to use it for now, because I've had difficulties with Sibelius 7 Sounds and quite a few other bits and bobs, moreover Edinburgh University has not yet updated (and probably won't now until next Summer). So in order to easily swap between home studio and university, for now I am doing legacy work, like my opera still on Sibelius 6.2.
Apart from the fact that so many notation issues, like tuplets, remained unaddressed in Sibelius 7, I was more than happy with its being 64 bit, at last, and I believe the Ribbon is a tour-de-force - the way I would design if I were starting anew, which is in effect what has happened. To me, it's just the same as menus, only spread out sideways, and able to be viewed without having to hold down the mouse button. It can also be hidden, and its shortcuts are almost exactly the same as for the former, labyrinthine menu system. The Ribbon's tabs are arranged in like territories, including associated plug-ins. The Toolbar we had in the old Sibelius was to me simply the ancestor of the Ribbon.
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Derek Williams
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Sib. 7.0: Uninstalling Sib 7 - Gordon Thornett, 13 Sep 02:35PM