That's a quaint phrase in 2019! .. and so often untrue ( the managers/bosses being superior ).
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Sad but true Paul,Quote:
That's a quaint phrase in 2019! .. and so often untrue ( the managers/bosses being superior ).
Strange that Rob always mentions that Xara is in charge and that Magix has no influence on the software
Care to comment Rob,................
Money makes the world go round
But we'll keep running in circles.
If there's online verification, I'm done. No more updates. The xara stuff I have now is just fine for everything I do already and I'm building a completely offline workstation for graphics and music. Online verification is and has always been an intrusive practice no matter what company does it and software as a service (SAS), i.e. Adobe's subscription model, is nothing but a cash drain. Old software works just fine. If Xara or any other company wants to do subscription, it should be subscription to official tech product support. I'd gladly pay 5-10 a month to always have official Xara help ready for me at any time I need them. Sending people to forums to have questions answered by other users is just a cost saving measure that Adobe and Xara use so they don't have to provide much support for the mundane questions they don't want to answer.
The direction of professional software in general is just...I guess to put it politely, I think this industry needs to steer this ship in another direction or it's gonna hit an ice burg that's completely avoidable.
Just checked on these boards after years of absence to post asking the exact same thing, but for version 11. Haven't upgraded since, and get the popup the first time I start it in a day. Effin annoying, and to find out it doesn't honor the 'Don't show' checkbox (which I suspected, but thought might have to do with Administrator privileges) is a real slap in the face. Nag screens are for shareware, not purchased products. Xara and Magix: I will never again recommend your products to anyone. I might change my mind if you gave a way to truly disable that thing. But until then, adios.
Best wishes,
David
I'm closing this thread. Point has been made and this is nothing we're in control of.