As a registered user of Discus, I received a mailout which addressed
problems with Discus and operating systems. Interesting?
The following is the message received....
At 1:18 AM +0000 20/9/09, discus world users wrote:
Discus User Alert
Dear registered Discus user, we have seen a flurry of tech support
inquiries in recent weeks about compatibility with Macintosh OSX
10.6 (Snow Leopard) and also Windows users calling about quicktime
issues if they install iTunes 9, as well as information about the
upcoming Windows 7 system.
Rest assured that whenever a major system change occurs, we will
make any necessary changes to Discus immediately and post a new
version on our website at www.magicmouse.com under the "Download
Updates" section. The latest Discus version is 4.24.
To our knowledge Discus 4 appears to be running fine.
We are seeing huge numbers of problems with Snow Leopard in general
however as Apple really bungled their recent release. Apple had to
rush out a service pack (6.1) to prevent a riot, and many defects
remain. If your livelihood depends on smooth functioning of your
Macintosh, please avoid installing Snow Leopard until 6.2 is
released. Snow 6.0 almost completely ruined printing. If you have
already installed Snow, be sure to download the latest versions of
printer drivers, many companies like Epson updated their drivers
after Snow shipped, and some like DYMO have not yet released Snow
drivers.
We are old hands at computers, going back to the punch card era, and
can state with authority that if you value your time and would like
to avoid unnecessary frustration in your life, we recommend that you
NOT UPGRADE TO ANY NEW OPERATING SYSTEM UNTIL SIX MONTHS HAVE
PASSED. The trusting people who recently purchased Apple's Snow
Leopard and immediately installed it were greeted with hundreds of
terrible bugs. It was reckless of Apple not to test their system
more thoroughly before releasing it to millions of paying customers.
When you immediately upgrade to a major new operating system version
you are basically volunteering to be an unpaid tester for the
supplier. Unlike bran muffins fresh operating system versions are
not better - they are more like wine which benefits from age.
Operating systems are among the most complex projects ever attempted
with hundreds if not thousands of man years of work inside, and
every major system shipping today went out the door with tens of
thousands of known defects. Both Apple and Microsoft have a bug
tracking system and the managers at Apple and Microsoft know full
well that their products are riddled with defects but market forces
dictate that they ship on a fixed calendar schedule regardless of
the consequences to the customer, and if they waited until the
product was flawless it would never ship at all.
Approximately 35% of the laptops containing Vista were downgraded to
XP. And this is after an entire year of vista on the street.
There are two places you can be in the computer world - the bleeding
edge and the trailing edge, and we recommend to all our customers to
buy proven hardware technologies that are least two years old and
try to stay behind in operating systems until you start to hit
problems because you are too far behind. When you stay behind a bit
you enjoy low prices, complete reliability, and lots of technical
help.
Regards,
The Discus Support Team
Kevin
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