– QuarkXpress 5: well, I’ve dumped Quark, anyway. Why does Adobe keep adding useless web export options, anyway? I used 10 at work, and after a few weeks it refused to even run. – Illustrator 9 even version 7 would do the job. – Photoshop 6 7 is more of the same, and 8 (CS) is even worse (US gov’t black-box modules, product activation). – Dreamweaver 3 I can’t see any useful difference between versions 3, 4, and 5 (MX). – Office 2000 really, MS hasn’t added any useful (for me) features since Office 97, and I’ve seen enough Office XP installations that wouldn’t go 10 minutes without crashing. – Windows 2000 it does the job, why pay for XP, just so Microsoft can treat me like a criminal (activation)? I’m slowly migrating to Linux anyway. What am I using, and why don’t I be a good consumer and upgrade? Looking at my own case, I use a lot of software, but I’ve bought very little software recently.
The software giants that account for most of these sales statistics simply aren’t producing products valuable enough for consumers to buy, especially when money is tight and the average American is using his credit card for groceries.
