Where is the Bentley View announcements page?

Hello Stuart,

Here is the link to the MicroStation Announcements forum, which includes Bentley View:

communities.bentley.com/.../343468

Thanks. Specifically I'm looking for the View CONNECT edition announcement. I couldn't see it in the list.

Hello Stuart,

We have discontinued Bentley View CONNECT Edition as you can take full advantage of CONNECTED Users and CONNECTED Projects with Bentley View V8i SELECTseries 4. You can find the announcement for this version below.

communities.bentley.com/.../117341

Thanks,
Daniel Eng

Why the step back from a CONNECT version to a v81 version? I thought that CONNECT was the way forward for Bentley.

Hi Daniel,

Unknown said:

We have discontinued Bentley View CONNECT Edition

It's pretty big surprise and I agree with Stuart it's hard to understand why.

Unknown said:

You can find the announcement for this version below.

I have not found any information that Bentley View has been discontinued and there will be no CONNECT Edition released in the announcement you linked. But in the discussion in the mentioned post, Bentley View CE is mentioned as product to be released.

I have to say it's long term Bentley tradition to don't provide any clear, simple and consistent information about product and development plans, but it seems it was enhanced to own job specialization to be able to guess what will be (not) migrated to CE platform and how. Maybe Bentley think the users are Nazguls controled by King of Angmar and Sauron and information has to be protected, so Gandalfs is walking around Bentley offices telling "Keep it secret, keep it safe" ... but for me still more acceptable picture than an assumption that agile methodology degenerated into a mess of ad-hoc decisions.

With regards,

  Jan