Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
in her final post in the closed thread kate (webmaster) confirmed that updates are lost if you reinstall on a new or modified computer

so it is very important to capture those updates in the way i mentioned there

i have no other software where such a hack would be necessary

the company can rationalise it any way they wish, but it still instinctively sounds and feels bad...
I would have thought that when a new update is available it becomes the default new installer from that date. I don't know why the last dated release before the subscription ended shouldn't be the install that that user has available after the subscription finishes. Easy for Xara to script and they just need to keep the dated installers available.

I guess this is intended to incentivise subscription continuation, but it does seem punative compared with other software vendors.