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Re: what's new in 8.0.1?

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  • Subject: [mg117187] Re: what's new in 8.0.1?
  • From: Michael Stern <nycstern at gmail.com>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:04:23 -0500 (EST)

Wait, you are mad because they're pushing out a free bug-fixing release? 
Wouldn't it make more sense to get mad if they /didn't/ push out free 
bug-fixing releases?

On 3/10/2011 6:14 AM, Emilio Martin-Serrano Sobrino wrote:
> To  WRI
>
> Right! , perfectly right!
>
> A new version mostly to correct bugs, or at least to correct some bugs among
> others, I guess.  Exactly  10 days after my purchase of  version 8.0.0, (I
> have the invoice on my desk, received just yesterday).
>
> Is not this a beautiful instance  of planned obsolescence, sometimes, and
> euphemistically,  called marketing strategy?
>
> Simply speaking:   this- -is - - not- - serious. On the contrary, it is
> really disgusting.
>
> All my versions of Mathematica always were second releases of the type
> "x.0.1":  5.0.1,  6.0.1,  7.0.1  (I do not remember those of versions 2, 3,
> 4, though they were not "X.0.0" either).
>
>   But this time I fell  in the trap, because I could not move my former 7.0.1
> to  a brand new desktop, so I have to cope with one of the  typically buggy
> X.0.0 versions , or, else, pay again for the same thing with some bugs
> removed, or, differently said,  pay twice to replace a defective thing. If
> the V8.0.0  was buggy, as it seems to be, WRI ought to have said they were
> ready to release the remedy, and I had  waited these 10 days to upgrade.
> That would have been the right thing.
>
> Of course, It is true that in my invoice, here on my desk, it can be clearly
> read: "No returns accepted without prior authorization". But, why not if the
> thing is defective? Or perhaps the new release is not to correct any bug in
> the previous release? Just new functionality? What about the stability
> problem, for example?
>
> Ah!  The reason might be the EULA, I guess again.
>
> But, by the way, what about the EU directive about returning defective
> things within the 15 days after the purchase?
>
> Yours truly, a disappointed customer
>
> E. Martin-Serrano
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Murray Eisenberg [mailto:murray at math.umass.edu]
> Enviado el: mi=E9rcoles, 09 de marzo de 2011 12:58
> Para: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Asunto: [mg117070] what's new in 8.0.1?
>
> I just downloaded&  installed Mathematica 8.0.1 under my Premier Service
> subscription.
>
> The e-mail announcing availability of this upgrade states, "more than
> 500 improvements, including feature, stability, and performance
> enhancements, as well as documentation updates."
>
> Does anybody know exactly where one can find a list of what's changed =
> from
> 8.0.0 to 8.0.1?
>
> (If you haven't yet received notification of the upgrade availability =
> but
> should get one, I think you just need to wait a bit: typically, WRI =
> rolls
> out new releases over a period, so as to avoid glacial downloads from a
> torrent of download requests hitting their servers all at once.)
>
> P.S. The installation process, including uninstalling 8.0.0 by the same
> installer, went really quickly (under Windows XP) compared to what has
> sometimes been the case in the past.
>
> --
> Murray Eisenberg                     murray at math.umass.edu
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