Autodesk and its partners have been constantly reminding and marketing the end of the upgrade option. Today is the last day. I’m not sure if the office did about it until yesterday.
I’ve been almost half-hearted about software upgrades. For programs like AutoCAD and office software, I think they are vital. These can’t be perfect when released and not have room for even the slightest improvement. For operating systems, though, I think major upgrades are unnecessary and overrated. I came across an article that android’s problem is how slow its new versions are deployed to the many android phones/tablets out there. I thought, why? Phones used to have specific firmware and worked with minor updates. And why would a phone people usually replaced in a year or two need to be updated a year or two after being bought? Then it hit me, hardware improvements are incremental and the devices are actually meant to last longer than people normally do as i actually constantly say.
Enter Windows 10 free upgrade announcement. This got me excited. Interestingly, one of the biggest problems with Vista was its high hardware requirements. It now seems like a necessary “evil” given how very uncommon bad hardware specs is despite looking so bad on paper. The excitement also came from the fact that I once wanted an updating Windows similar to OS X. Incremental changes that build up to major revisions similar to how service packs worked, only bigger.
I’m incoherent now so I’ll probably stop. Point is, I’m looking forward to how these big software updates are going, Autodesk software and Windows. These steady updates are a sign of a more stable progress in both software and hardware, and in general, an assured evolution in our computing lifestyle.
