Comments on: We’re Still Working

By: Bruce Buzbee

Bruce Buzbee — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:52:01 +0000

Vyger,

We like the feedback. Just wanted to let users know that we want RM4 out as badly as they do

By: Michael Booth

Michael Booth — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:46:54 +0000

To Sue, you will be able to easily upgrade from RootsMagic 2 (or any other version of RootsMagic or Family Origins).

To Sharon (and other), RootsMagic 4 runs great on a 64-bit operating system. In fact, it is being developed on a system with 64-bit Vista.

By: Vyger

Vyger — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:22:30 +0000

Bruce

I was not being critical and the blog has been great.

Speaking personally when the blog appeared I thought we must be close to release and maybe you had hoped that also. I read it often and I believe most users were expectant of a release well before Christmas which does not seem to be a reality now from the latest news releases.

I am happy to wait, help, give feedback or just shut up, whatever works best

I am going to assume “shut up” and let you get on with your good work, I do appreciate the efforts of you and the team, just wish I could help in someway.

By: Bruce Buzbee

Bruce Buzbee — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:52:23 +0000

Vyger,

Very few comments have been “screened out” (spam, etc). At this point we are fixing bugs, optimizing (speeding up) certain features, and trying to make sure we didn’t accidentally leave out any features that were in v3. This blog has been an interesting experience… trying to keep our users up to date on what we’re doing, but opening ourselves up for criticism that we aren’t doing it fast enough. One benefit from this… I’m beginning to develop a pretty thick hide

By: Michael Werner

Michael Werner — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:31:41 +0000

Where did my comment/question go? It was here for a few days.

By: Vyger

Vyger — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:58:03 +0000

OK, so if you are going to screen out certain comments from the blog and as it now seems to be a 2009 release date, please make sure someone is delagated the task of making sure the to-do list interface is beefed up with many more categories and listing options (if not already done) to make for a complete program and genealogy tool.

I don’t mind waiting for V4, just don’t release something that is not quite there and keep up the good work.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:16:18 +0000

From the RootsMagic website:

“All RootsMagic users are invited to participate in our Community Preview program. Simply fill out the following form [see link below]. You will be notified via email in mid-December how to download the RootsMagic 4 Community Preview.”

http://www.rootsmagic.com/preview/

Here is another interesting link regarding RootsMagic 4:

http://genealogy.about.com/b/2008/11/25/do-you-want-to-play-with-a-preview-copy-of-rootsmagic-4.htm

By: Sue Fritz

Sue Fritz — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:39:05 +0000

I have been using version RM 2.04…will I be able to go right from it to the new version 4 when it arrives?

By: P J Evans

P J Evans — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:07:28 +0000

Sharon, RM3 says:
‘Runs under Windows Vista, XP, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and 2003′

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:49:43 +0000

Will RootsMagic work with a 64 bit Operating System?