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Software Upgrades/Updates (venting!)

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Software Upgrades/Updates (venting!)

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I just got off the phone with the ACDsee company in Canada who sold me an image viewer program a while back. I liked it enough to also buy one for Darla's machine. It worked fine with my Nikon D70 camera. A few weeks ago, I purchased an new Nikon D200 camera and found it does not read the new RAW files, rendering it basically useless now. During my long distance call to Canada, I finally found out that version 7 of ACDsee will never support the D200, and that I would have to upgrade to version 8 for each machine. The original programs cost me $49.99 each, but the upgrade to version 8 will now cost me $39.99 each just so I can view my new files. Ouch! Of course, I told the tech person I thought that an 80% fee to upgrade seemed too steep. She was polite, of course, then I asked her if other people complained. She said, "Oh, yes", but it was obvious she didn't have any control of it.

Sometimes, this stuff is just plain old frustrating. I doubt I will upgrade on this one.

Mike
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