Must the software be upgraded to the latest edition?

Every time I open the pea pod, the upper left corner of the number will indicate that I have several software needs to be updated, as long as I do not open a week, need to update the software up to more than 10. If I have 360 or QQ security software installed on my computer, I should also be busy eliminating the numbers on the Software butler icon.

If you install these tools to help you update the latest version of the software, you will find that the software upgrades are very fast. But I'm not worried about software updates on my computer. Not only did I not install that kind of software housekeeper, I also recently took the initiative to demote some software to an older version.

I want to talk a little bit about software--for users--why it's better to stay in the old version, and what this might do to users and developers.

1. Mandatory Networking

Thousands of listening to clean, simple and green is known, but doing it suddenly joined a music window. What's going on? Later airplay to clean, simple and green is known, but do do a sudden join the account login function, how is it? Originally won the Grand a round of financing.

Domestic commonly used software from stand-alone to network generally has three purposes:

Registering users and forming user relationships;

Automatic Update;

Push ads and recommend software to each other.

These goals are generally referred to as "new function" packaging, the core function of the software has not changed, but increasingly bloated. In this regard, I do not have to give more examples.

I used to write an article about how storms can cause 2010 of years of nationwide broken nets, and later wrote a story about PPS and pplive two software on the new user's machine wantonly ravaged. Yesterday 360 followed the Baidu said, in the desktop and mobile phone installation cloud disk to send 1T space. Someone commented in Cnbeta, "Ann has a client, and it's estimated that they will come soon." ”

At present, many applications of the main cotton problem, are caused by the addition of new networking features. In exchange for a convenient old version, in the new machine has been upgraded many times, will immediately realize the "Fly general feeling."

2, upgrade brings compatibility issues

If you rise from 32 bits to 64 bits, or the lowest supported system upgrades from XP to Vista, it can bring unexpected software incompatibilities. Some incompatibilities are software intended.

I usually use Adobe Flash drawings, and sometimes I need to output vector graphics to Illustrator. However, when I tried the Adobe cc kit, I was in trouble: the feature disappeared.

The function itself has been changing. Flash CS4 can be exported directly before the AI format file. CS5 began not to directly export AI, but introduced a new format, called FXG, the road is still not sealed. In Flash cc, the FXG format disappears without any alternative options.

I went to Adobe's official forum and found that a lot of people were already asking the question. What really makes me feel wonderful is the answer to this question. An Adobe clerk Sujais replies:

"The library used to export the FXG format is only 32-bit, and is currently 64-bit Flash Pro CC incompatible." A new auxiliary interchange format that can output vector graphics will take effect in the next release of Flash Pro CC. ”

The incompatibility between the products and the release of the new version makes many users feel irritated. Replies said:

"It was a great oversight. Flash Pro CC does not have such a feature that is absolutely not available for official release. ”

"I really hope Adobe doesn't follow Microsoft's lead-release a lame product and fix it with a whole bunch of patches," he said. ”

"So they reconstructed the entire product from scratch, resulting in incompatibility with their own products? This is really lame. ”

If you use Flash for many years, you have no reason not to be angry. It changes each version number, the generated source files are incompatible with the previous version. This is not to say, each version, can only save for the 1-2 version of the unique format, if you want to jump from the cc/cs6 back to CS3, you need to install 3 versions of flash!

Say is to let Adobe do not learn Microsoft, but Microsoft to Office 2013 can also be saved as Office 97 can open the format, this is called the industry's conscience!

3, the product changes fundamentally

From chin to listening to Baidu Music, from Storm Codec to storm audio and video, from Office 2003 to 2007. Sometimes, we just need to put things back to the past, but also a little strong determination to break the wrist.

But it happened that we cut the wrist may be a bit deeper, hurt too many old users feel. This clean and thorough facelift sometimes means two different software before and after the upgrade, and old users need to learn from scratch and adapt to a new tool.

Of course, if the tools you want to use are compulsive, such as browsers, Office software, and operating systems, you'll get used to it anyway. The Office UI eventually succeeds in switching to Ribbon, half of which is the compulsive credit.

However, if the tool is optional, there is a substitute, or the application scene is not much, it will suffer. Thousands of listening to Baidu acquisition, the music player market quietly wiped out the name of the competitor.

As can be seen, the fundamental changes in many products are often driven by subsequent capital factors. When the author or small team has been incorporated, the software has lost the fundamental momentum of growth, the more the worse it is understandable.

Conclusion

In many cases, the software is not as new as possible. Some new editions require stand-alone software to be forced into a network, with membership features and message tweets that you don't need, some newer and older versions, even the same version of your own software, and some products that are transformed from start to finish into another piece of software that you don't know.

The common cause of the three is profit pressure. Networking can bring software pre-installed and advertising opportunities, not compatible with the old version of forcing you to pay each time to upgrade, and a thorough acquisition team may lead to a fundamental transformation of products, or even completely extinct.

In the software generally pay attention to "rapid iteration" today, version update faster than a few years ago, to see Firefox, Chrome and even IE version number changes, you will find a parabola rising trend.

At home, a variety of software stewards, as I mentioned above, have created psychological guidance for the user, prompting them to constantly experience the upgrade process for each minor version number. This, in turn, drives the developer's enthusiasm, with each upgrade equal to a free exposure opportunity.

This is not a trend that deserves encouragement. Software should be in a short period of time to maintain a relatively stable state, do not boast of their own subtle changes to earn the eyeball, but thick thin hair, so that each update makes users feel value for money. This is the direction we should pursue.