Forced Software Upgrades Can Add Up for Vista Users
Posted by: [NT] on: 03/06/2007 06:16 PM [ Print | 2 comment(s) ] · 1430 views
Windows users contemplating the cost of upgrading to Vista may need a fatter wallet than they thought. Besides shelling out for faster hardware, users should expect to pay for Vista upgrades for many of their favorite Windows software.
Rather than releasing free patches to update existing versions, leading vendors such as Adobe Systems, Symantec, and Intuit are choosing to add Vista compatibility only to new releases or still-in-development future products. Most of these new versions will add significant features along with Vista compatibility. And, vendors will argue, if Vista compatibility is a new feature, what's unfair about packaging a new feature only in new versions of their software, rather than going back and patching aging versions nearing the end of their product life cycle? Read on at PCWorld
Rather than releasing free patches to update existing versions, leading vendors such as Adobe Systems, Symantec, and Intuit are choosing to add Vista compatibility only to new releases or still-in-development future products. Most of these new versions will add significant features along with Vista compatibility. And, vendors will argue, if Vista compatibility is a new feature, what's unfair about packaging a new feature only in new versions of their software, rather than going back and patching aging versions nearing the end of their product life cycle? Read on at PCWorld
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Tuckwit Posts: 62 Joined: 2002-09-26 |
#66091 Posted on: 03/06/2007 06:30 PM
And also don't expect all features to work anyway, rather than adding significant features, i.e. Upgrade to Nero 7 for Vista compatability like this sucker, you don't even get Imagedrive any more. |
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The_GURU Unregistered |
#66096 Posted on: 03/06/2007 11:32 PM
rofl, true, but who pays :P and screw any virtual drive except daemon tools  |
