Forum: MemoQ support
Topic: Is the MemoQ licence lifelong?
Poster: Georgios T.
Post title: Constant Update Syndrome
[quote]Dominique Pivard wrote:
...Kilgray releases at least one major version (sometimes two, eg. memoQ 2013 and memoQ 2013 R2) every year, while SDL only releases major versions every 2-3 years (2009, 2011, 2014), so you get more for your money in terms of new features. [/quote]
For me, as a power user since the 90's who can tell when supports are really needed and useful, "getting more for my money" means nothing. I don't *want* updates every year (or even more often than that, gods forbid) because most upgrades break things or make them less useful. Since the late 00's, it has been like this for most software and OS (*cough*Windows8-10*). Apps updating every couple of days? What a joke.
The CUS ("Constant Update Syndrome") is a phenomenon created artificially in an era where quantity (of content, updates, stuff in general) seems to matter more than quality and stability. The reason is of course simple: more upgrades -> more money asked. I am not saying their IT/Dev departments are not working on stuff. I am just saying that they don't NEED to work so much on new stuff. We all see all the constant "improvements" on UIs that are just copying other products' (first it was MS Office, now it's the Google Docs aesthetic) etc.
I'd LOVE it if I could have a major version every 3 years (and just some small patches to fix bugs in between). Updating for its own sake is completely unreasonable. Even the addition of new main features doesn't really need a full redesign of so much code and UI elements. I don't want to get "more for my money", I want to get the most I can for as little money as possible, without unnecessary content being shoved down my throat, just because that's the zeitgeist. "Getting more for your money" is usually nothing but an elementary marketing trick to get us to pay more on unnecessary products and services.
[Edited at 2015-12-14 11:16 GMT]