Fighting Words
The program I write most of my scripts on is "Screenwriter." It's got a great look and feel. They have a new program they're marketing now called "Streamline" which, without cheating, gives writers input and tools about changes they might make to shorten their scripts. This is good news because most methods of making a script shorter also make it look crammed and unreadable and, the truth is, anyone who knows anything about scripts knows it's been cheated anyway, so what's the point?
I digress. In the mailing today about this new product are some words that could strike fear in the halls of Microsoft.
"Streamline 1.0 is available for Macintosh only. Streamline for Windows is in development, but no release date has been announced."
That's right. The program is built for Macs first. Windows is the afterthought. Wow. Maybe that says something about how screenwriters favor Macs, but it struck me as the thought for the day. "Macintosh only."
