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Finale 2004 OS X Shipping on Jan 16th

Thursday January 15, 2004 1:14 pm PST by Arnold Kim

MakeMusic.com has announced that Finale 2004 for Mac OS X is complete and expected to ship on January 16th, 2004.

The Mac OS X native version of the popular music notation software has been long anticipated, with an initial announcement of release back in October 2003 which was met with delays.

The new version will be Mac OS X only, with a version for OS 9 support coming in the future.

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