Rob wrote:
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.
I was going to add in to my post about the cost of hardware with
upgrades. I'm glad you did. I see I'm not alone.
The problem in software development, not the only one, is that in order
to stay profitable, software developers have to constantly offer
"upgrades" with new features. For instance: photoshop. There's a great
software that works just fine in version 3 or 5.5 if you want more. But
I have found that 80% of the features are uneccesary and I never go
there. So I stopped upgrading, which turns off the money flow to adobe.
But I paid what they asked and I'm satisfied with the product. Where
does the software distributor go from there? I don't know. But at the
cost of keeping my work-flow consistent, I'm staying put with the lower
versions of most software I have.
Maybe we need to be paying on a continual lease for monthly use of the
software, however we will only be able to lease the latest versions of
it and thus put ourselves back into the problem of updating all the
hardware again. If owners of the older versions would allow leasing of
those versions maybe it would be a better solution. I would love to get
use of the older version of Dreamweaver, for instance.
.
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