http://www.finalemusic.com/blog/streamlining-the-next-version-of-finale/?utm_source=responsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=finaleteaser
 
they are adopting Cakes model of naming and upgrades

nobody cares about notation and scoring software I see

I kind of do.  I have Notion 5 and MuseScore.  Been watching Overture 5.
I did a Finale trial 2 or 3 years ago and didn't get along with it very well.
I only do occassional lead sheets and Notion is pretty quick with that.

Ham N Egz
nobody cares about notation and scoring software I see

LOL, since who needs it when they have Sonar. (sarcasm)
I hardly use notation software anymore even though I got the Notion upgrade.  This upcoming version of Finale I will most likely buy if they don't jack up the price.  It will also convert PDF to score.

I found myself having to learn Finale last year because of a book of guitar transcriptions I was collaborating on.  I have to say I really did not get along with it. I bought a Finale tutorial book which got rave reviews on Amazon and also watched the Lynda.com course. Throughout these lessons my most frequent thought was "Wow, what a convoluted way of doing that." I've never used any other notation software so I don't know how it measures up to something like Sibelius, but I was not impressed. I also didn't like how it forced me to run my interface at 44.1kHz instead of my usual 48kHz. Having said that, the version I have is 2012 (Got it cheap sometime in 2013 but didn't start tackling it for ages) so perhaps it's come on in leaps and bounds since then. I'm not holding my breath though because it just seemed to me that the fundamental design philosophy behind it didn't gel with me. 

I find it a waste of time to use traditional note editors for guitar. They work fine for violas, trumpets, and flutes. There is software specifically for guitar. Power Tab Editor is free.  I like Arobus Music Guitar Pro 6.

And there's Notion's little sister, Progression.

kitekrazy1
I find it a waste of time to use traditional note editors for guitar. They work fine for violas, trumpets, and flutes. There is software specifically for guitar. Power Tab Editor is free.  I like Arobus Music Guitar Pro 6.

Finale has a tab editor built in. And the book I was collaborating on required both tab and standard notation. It's pretty full featured for guitar transcriptions, I just didn't like the workflow. 

Lots of new features for the new version, now just called Finale.  64bit and Rewire support to put it inside of Sonar, to name a few.

any scoring software is convoluted, difficult and cumbersome. that's because scoring is convoluted, difficult and cumbersome. Notion is great, Finale is great, not used Sibelius but i'm sure that is also good.