Comments on: Are engineers living on another planet? Don’t they use their software?

By: Michael Chermside

Michael Chermside — Thu, 11 May 2006 11:52:59 +0000

The engineers had bigger hard drives than you do. Seriously… it’s something they SHOULD have thought of, but probably just never encountered because development so often happens on the latest and greatest hardware.

By: Stever

Stever — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:03:16 +0000

I disagree. I don’t think marketing departments can be expected to think through technical issues like how an upgrade should work. There’s no technical reason why you shouldn’t be able to upgrade-in-place, deleting the old installation before overwriting it with the new one. But they didn’t give that option. It didn’t detect the presence of the old version (except to verify my eligibility for the upgrade) and offer to upgrade it; it simply went ahead and installed into a new location. Upgrade-in-place is an engineering decision, not a marketing decision.

By: diggit

diggit — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:32:34 +0000

What the heck? Engineers don’t decide about features of the product they have to develop. What you are speaking about is definitely a feature, with clear definable cost and profits. Some manager has decided profits wouldn’t cover the cost.