Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2

Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by kilburn on Saturday June 26, 2021 @07:20PM (#27646925)

It looked interesting to me, but their disnhonesty just threw me back:

> Not a subscription—never expires

> Includes 1 year of free version upgrades

Are you telling me that a third-party slack client will keep working forever without updates? The "not a subscription" message here is effectively moot: this thing will stop working and you will need to pay for "another year of version upgrades".

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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by viraptor on Saturday June 26, 2021 @08:06PM (#27647196)

Those are the two common models of proprietary software distribution - subscriptions or one-off payments. Did you actually expect lifetime updates for $20 - i.e. the benefits of subscriptions for the price of one-off purchase?

It's not promising you to work forever without updates, but also it doesn't force you to pay if you're happy and everything still works.

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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by kilburn on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:37AM (#27660090)

The big difference here is that nobody should expect this app to continue working without updates.

Contrast this with something like sublime text: years from now you can still expect it to work normally.

What I expect is that if your app will not continue working for a long time then you should not make "lifetime license" one of your selling points unless you are prepared to offer lifetime upgrades too.

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