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End of "All-In-One" Microsoft OS

Well, to reitterate, I think my original premise was that I was going to be much more cautious about believing anything about VISTA until it had settled down. Notes in the article talked about VISTA going through an evolutionary set of changes of a modular design until about

2010.

Couple the changes with subscription licensing of the OS, doesn't give me a lot of confidence that things will really run smooth in the beginning.

I indeed think it is fair to say I'll be running Win XP Pro for at least a few more years, because I value my time, more than the concept of 'keeping up'. I am going to let the Pioneers figure out where all the problems lie and fix them before I wade in.

Bo

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I totally agree and have always been quite amazed that the patches have not been been free. A specific incident with this was 2006 not display cosmetic threads properly, (BTW cosmetic threads is one of the features that Inventor really puts SW to shame). I made the request on how to fix this from tech support but by the time the solution showed up, (apparently SP4) I was off of subscription and it is still broken. Good thing it is not a critical feature. Someday after 2007 SP1 or SP2, (depending on how brave I will be feeling) I guess I'm going to get cosmetic threads to desplay properly. But, besides SW's unethical practic in this area, one would hope that SW would have enough pride in their product that it does not act like some "toy".... :-)

I also think that this kind of thing could be the basis of a fat class action law suit against SW someday...

I really think that SW needs to come to grips with what does the "Value" mean in VAR. Providing classes that ultimately arn't very effective, Selling updates that should have been stood behind by SW and forcing experienced users to pay for tech support really doesn't seem like Value to me.

In the case of both MS and SW if they take care of their users, the users will be loyal!

Ed

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Well, Concord will tell you that "updates" to fix bugs in your version of SolidWorks are free. It's just that I've never heard of anyone actually getting them. You would probably have to document the bug and file an SPR. Unfortunately it you are not on subscription, I don't think you have access to the SPR filing mechanism so it's a catch 22.

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