So, what you're telling me is that I can volunteer to put my data and machine at risk by helping you to test out what is almost certain to be buggy software (given the nature of beta software in general and Stardock's own track record for enormous bugs in your actual releases) and then I'm supposed to *pay* for the privilege afterwards?
Well, please excuse me if I don't rush to take advantage of your offer.
Most companies that I have ever dealt with (and I'm a professional software developer too) *give* their beta testers a copy of the released software, in recognition of the risks they take and the work they do for you, free of charge.
Be that as it may, as a long time paying user of your previous products (and one who has had a number of them pulled out from under him - for example the enitre games suite, which completely changed its subscription model without notifying the current subscribers. I found this out when I had to rebuild my machine and discovered I no longer had access to any of the software that I had previously paid for) I would personally prefer that you spent the last 2 and a half years fixing the long and well-catalogued list of bugs in your current software, instead of working on some new package.
As an aside, you've removed one of the pieces of sowftware that I used, and have replaced it with an inferior copy that doesn't do anything better than the old one and in fact has lost one major piece of functionality. I'm referring to the Virtual Desktops, which used to be part of ControlCentre. The old version coped with a desktop that spread over multiple monitors - this new one doesn't. Which kind of makes it a lot less useful. Until you fix this glaring bug (which yes, I've reported. Repeatedly.) why not return the functionality to the ControlCentre, for those of us who would like to continue to get the functionality we paid for.
Stephen Soymonoff
