Through the grapevine, Yamaha Digital Music World has announced that their music studio software, XGWorks, has finally been upgraded to work with Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and has been re-stocked. XGWorks 3.0 is quite old, all things considered, but is very popular and preferred by people using Yamaha XG instruments (and XG-enabled PC sound cards), even to the latest versions of other home sequencing products. It was recently deemed dead when Yamaha appeared to provide no support when it was found to not work with the latest versions of Windows, and stores received no new stock of the product. What's worse is various divisions of Yamaha were giving contradictory information on the status of support for the product. I wouldn't be surprised if Yamaha kills the product after this run, but from what I've heard, Win2k/XP compatability was the only thing missing from an otherwise fantastic product.
Existing XGWorks 3.0 users can download a free patch. For more information, see the XGworks Home Page.
After reading this comment, I am really confused as to the status of XGWorks. Yamaha has devoted an extensive web page dedicated to the product, including tutorials, and a purchase link. You can even buy it through their virtual store, yet there is a new sequencer software, called SQ01, that is being distributed with the next generation of hardware. What's up Yamaha? Anyone have a clue?