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The desktop era still required you upgrading your software often enough to patch security issues and remain inside of support. I suppose the main advantage is t
by lazaroclapp 11y ago
The desktop era still required you upgrading your software often enough to patch security issues and remain inside of support. I suppose the main advantage is that you still roughly got to pick when to upgrade. Also, the time between major UI shifts was long enough that by the time you absolutely needed to move from your current version, you were buying a new desktop. Rather than having the one you'd already been using randomly "mutate" from under you...
- agumonkey 11y agoExactly. In a less connected world, you have more control over things. The pacing felt a bit more balanced or maybe we're still in a transitory regime where the cloud thing is not fully developped and integrated.
- creshal 11y ago> The desktop era still required you upgrading your software often enough to patch security issues and remain inside of support. And sometimes people find UI issues bad enough to take the risk. Just look at e.g. all the how-tos to downgrade Skype to version 6 or 4, just to avoid the horrible current UI. Or the migration from Office 2003 to newer versions with the ribbon UI. If I'd give my users the choice, they'd all vote to downgrade.
- Drdrdrq 11y agoActually, that was the reason I sold one user on OpenOffice, back then. Happy user now. :)
- rms_returns 11y ago> I suppose the main advantage is that you still roughly got to pick when to upgrade. I think that argument applies only when you are using someone else's cloud hosted solution like ClearBooks or SalesForce. But if you host your own cloud infrastructure on Amazon AWS or Linode and install a custom web-base product, you DO get to decide when to upgrade (apart from many other benefits of course).