{"id":44,"date":"2008-05-03T23:10:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2008\/05\/03\/your-old-software-is-no-longer-supported\/"},"modified":"2008-05-03T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T03:10:08","slug":"your-old-software-is-no-longer-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/your-old-software-is-no-longer-supported\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Your old software is no longer supported&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was cleaning last weekend, and came across my college 12Mhz PC\/AT.  It has a 40Mb Seagate hard drive ($425, new!) and monochrome <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hercules_Graphics_Card\" target=\"_blank\">Hercules graphics<\/a>.  We used that computer into the late 90s; eventually, it&#8217;s sole purpose was to run DOS Quicken.  We still miss that version &#8212; it was fast, minimalist, focused, and did the job very well.  If they had added Internet statement downloads, we&#8217;d probably still be using it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Quicken drives me nuts &#8212; we&#8217;ve &#8220;upgraded&#8221; a few times, <strong>only <\/strong>because Intuit has stopped supporting our old versions.  Rarely have we gotten any features we actually want; usually all I get is Kellie&#8217;s (justified) complaining about learning a new UI.<\/p>\n<p>This is the <strong>core problem with the old software model:<\/strong>  the publisher is incented to keep selling you new versions, even if you don&#8217;t really need them.  I&#8217;m still using Office 2000, and in my view, it&#8217;s &#8220;feature complete&#8221;.  Office 2008 doesn&#8217;t have anything I need or want.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe&#8217;s PhotoShop Elements is the worst offender:  I bought 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 an then gave up.   In successive versions, there were few new features, lots of gratuitous UI redesign, and in some cases, features taken out!<\/p>\n<p>Subscription models are the future, clearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was cleaning last weekend, and came across my college 12Mhz PC\/AT. It has a 40Mb Seagate hard drive ($425, new!) and monochrome Hercules graphics. We used that computer into the late 90s; eventually, it&#8217;s sole purpose was to run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/your-old-software-is-no-longer-supported\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}