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Right, and the old way let you choose your upgrade cycle, rather than letting the company choose how often they’d like to make you buy.
by ericd 5y ago
Right, and the old way let you choose your upgrade cycle, rather than letting the company choose how often they’d like to make you buy.
- warrenm 5y agoOutside of [possibly] amateur hobbyists, who isn't upgrading their software/hardware at least every ~3 years?
- Macha 5y agoHave you _seen_ the IT infrastructure of some non-tech companies? The amount of companies that had to scramble for the Windows 7 (released 2009) EOL in 2020?
- warrenm 5y agoI'm aware that some laces are completely unaware of the world around them Doesn't change the fact that the world keeps going whether you're paying attention or not
- ericd 5y agoDo you think version 21 of a piece of desktop software is usually substantially better than version 20? Do you think those places are missing out on a lot?
- warrenm 5y agoI have no idea what version 21 vs version 20 of some hypothetical piece of software is in every case though, the odds are quite good that version updates are improvements (security, platform support, features, etc)
- ericd 5y agoOf course that's unknowable, which is why I said "usually". As for the second part, that's not been my experience with commercial software at that point in its life at all. Maybe yours has differed.
- warrenm 5y agoI cannot recall any commercial software I've used in the last quarter century or more wherein a new release did not bring a host of fixes and features along with it