Betty you are so right.
When I was first into computers a new company started marketing a
Bible for the computer. Called it Quick Verse.
Company had integrity and sold a good product. When Windows came out
helped you upgrade your program to a Windows version, and then
improved and sold a new version and offered you some money off to upgrade.
Slowly upgraded it and kept improving it, with customer input.
They also developed some other software for churches that was useful.
They had also developed a tax program called Tax Edge that was super
good, and originally was a DOS based program then came out with
Windows program. Very good program and well priced.
When MS lost out on a bid to buy Intuit to add it's muscle to their
coffers, Intuit bought out Parsons, and killed the tax program and
slowly dismantled the company.
Now I get flyers to buy the new and improved Quick Verse almost every
year. It is not better (They might add a throwaway electronic book
with it, public domain or similar) just repackaged every year to try
and get you to purchase and upgrade and keep their money flow going.
Our churches publishing company has found this out and is hawking a
program to churches that is paid on a subscription status every
year. Keeps the money flowing and makes the bookkeepers happy.
Stewart
At 10:38 AM 3/25/2009, you wrote:
Word used to be an excellent program, except for the crashing and
bugs in some versions. As long as you save and backup frequently,
Word is an extremely powerful program--now and ten years ago. When
they make changes that don't improve the interface or execution, it's
pointless to "update" since the chage is to sell a new version,
rather than to improve the program.
Adobe has done the same. They added a lot of junk to Photoshop when
they finally bought it instead of simply being the distributor. They
changed Pagemaker so that it became almost unrecognizable. They
dumped user-friendly FreeHand in favor of user-hostile Illustrator
when they bought Macromedia.
Apple has made the same kind of changes where their original
software worked just fine. Pages is not a good replacement for basic
AppleWorks. TextEdit is not longer a text editor; saving as *.txt isn't choice.
"New and improved" in software often means changes that increase
profit and reduce productivity, just as in advertising. I always
read the fine print for products that are labeled "new and
improved". They usually have less contents andmore filler.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[email protected]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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