Erness Wild <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a firm believer in not upgrading software once I find it does what I > need it to do. Even if there are a couple of things not right with it. > Upgrading is what kills most software, too much memory required etc. > Don't upgrade and enjoy what you have. > The worst of course it the "get a new computer" to use the new software. > I'm using software that is over ten years old in some cases. > I think in many cases, lazy users are the cause of software upgrades.
In general I agree with that, but in the browser there is the special problem that there are many bugs, and the bad guys on internet are exploiting them to damage your computer. So, it is required to upgrade to fix the bugs. Unfortunately there often us no separate track to fix bugs and another one to get new features, so together with bug fixes you get new features with more new bugs. And increased system requirements. Where I work we still use Windows XP, Windows Server 2003R2, and Microsoft Office 2003. It does what we need. Why upgrade? It is required because no more updates will come out soon, and any security bugs will go unfixed. However, upgrading to a recent version comes at a high price: replacing all the computers, getting new licenses, etc. All together a cost of several hundred thousand dollars, with no immediate benifits for the company. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
