postal-code.com — Parallels has changed its tune on the pricing of their virtualization software for OS X, reneging on promises to early-adopters regarding free upgrades. Here's hoping they'll answer up some accountability.
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mpeters13Jun 9, 2007
Forget parallels. I'm on the vmware fusion boat now. <a class="user" href="http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/fusion">http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/fusion</a>
Closed AccountJun 9, 2007
OMFG get a life. Are so so used to pirating software or having mommie and daddy pay for it that you are complaining about $40?Perhaps cars, air flights and your personal labor should be free, too? After all, those programs wrote themselves and none of the programmers have to eat...It pisses me off when people do good work and ask for a more-than-reasonable compensation and then some cheapass s**thead whines about it.As a parallels user of v2 that has constantly been downloading all the build I clearly expected an upgrade charge for 3.0; its a real step above.I just feel you're being petty by claiming that the "major updates" phrase means you get 3.0 for free - and it burns me up even more that the upgrade cost is only $40 and yet you still complain. They are a great company that has had success beyond their dreams and no longer are children; let them grow up and be a real company.and Please, please throw all your Macs away and go back to PCs only; you should have stopped using macs at OS 7.6.1
ceribikJun 9, 2007
They are two different things... hardware vs software.
pauldyJun 10, 2007
Its more principle for me than the money. They release so many major upgrades in a year, don't bug fix previous versions, and they have policies and practices that are more in line with a credit card company that a software development firm. Then top it off with them not honoring peoples requests for serial numbers who spent money on upgrade protection and you have a lot of poed people looking for answers from a company that doesn't know how to deal with it.I dealt with it by hitting vmwares site signing up for the beta, boxing my parallels software up and calling visa. If taking money back out of their pockets doesn't send the message that they need to come at their customers a little differently then they will quickly become the name that was and I will probably end up using VirtualBox because I won't be willing to pay VMWare the 4x bucks they want for vmware fusion because of the lack of competition.
escamilloJun 10, 2007
@deoFusionSo hardware is worth paying hundreds of dollars for but software isn't worth paying even $40 for?I value my "software" much more than my hardware. If someone broke into my home and made off with my DVD player, CD player, record player, or video game console, I couldn't care less. But if they made off with my DVD collection, CD collection, vinyl record collection, or video game collection, then I'd be quite pissed. Software is more valuable than hardware in almost all aspects. RMS has convinced you that software has no intrinsic value, but he's wrong.