Bob Pritchett, founder and president/CEO of Logos Bible Software, just posted this in the newsgroups:
Logos 4.0…
…keeps what you love about Logos Bible Software
…gets rid of what annoys you in Logos Bible Software
…puts things where you’d expect them
…is still in development
…reflects an obsession on ease-of-use
…remembers things
…helps you share the fruit of your study with students and congregations
…has simpler menus
…comes with massive, hand-edited data sets
…favors direct manipulation over large settings panels
…is the iPhone of Bible software
…gives more screen space to content
…searches with the speed and ease of Google
…searches just your quality content (not the morass Google has to wade through)
…works well with multiple monitors
…makes smart guesses about what you are looking for
…looks very cool
…is under tight wrap until “the big moment.”
HT: Phil Gons
Do you have any idea when ‘soon’ is? Was thinking about buying this weekend, but with this news, I might wait, but don’t want to wait until next Winter. Any news would be appreciated!
Scott, if you’re ready to purchase version 3 this weekend, there’s no sense in waiting for 4, which is most likely still months out. (If you were looking to buy Logos sometime in the next 9 months, that might be a different story.) One thing to keep in mind with Logos is that when you buy books, you don’t have to repurchase them when a new version comes out—updates to newer builds of your resource files are free. The core engine update is also usually free, and the upgrade to get all of the new features and functionality is typically very reasonable and definitely worth the cost.
In full disclosure, I work for Logos and am a good friend of Andy’s. Let me know if I can be of any help: phil@logos.com.