[CONNECT] Release of Update 12?

Hi all,

I'm eagerly awaiting some fixes apparently addressed in Microstation CE Update 12 - does anyone know when it's due to be released?

Regards,

Mark

  • Hello Mark,

    MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 12 is going through the final internal release procedures.  If everything goes as planned, we hope to have it out at the earliest by the end of this week.

    Thanks,

    Daniel Eng

    Answer Verified By: Mark Shamoun 

  • Excellent, Thanks Dan!

    Regards,

    Mark


    OpenRoads Designer 2023  |  Microstation 2023.2  |  ProjectWise 2023

  • Hi Dan,

    MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 12 is going through the final internal release procedures.  If everything goes as planned, we hope to have it out at the earliest by the end of this week.

    because you and other Bentley colleagues have repeated the same several times from end of the last year, it's not very reliable information anymore :-(

    My feeling, based on what I have heard from customers, Bentley lost credit because of CONNECT Edition. Not only because very low quality (slowness and number of reported bugs are facts), but also because of not properly handled communication (subjective attitude and feeling of users). Unfortunately you (Bentley) are actively working towards such situation because of lack of communication. Bentley prefer (exceptions exist, but are rare) to don't tell anything and to use "IBM / INGR / ... style" from last century), which is "don't tell anything, do not provide any information".

    I think I am consistent in my long term opinion that every problem with product release is an opportunity to communicate with customers and to build better bond with users. Some other companies (including Bentley competitors) understand it and use e.g. blogs to provide information "behind the door". I recall plenty of blogs in a style "Did you hear about this our problem? We do this and that, discovered this problem, and are changing these things." Such approach does not make the development faster or decrease number of bugs, but work with community and actively change community perception.

    Not long ago one from my local customer started to evaluate alternatives to Bentley products for chosen tasks. He told me "this is company working hard on their product" ... whereas I know it's small local company with limited resources, with not bad product (but quite focused on specific functionality), but cannot be treated as "MicroStation replacement". But they are open, constantly communicating their plans and achievements, so the overall feeling is much better.

    Maybe the source of the problem is that standard positions in companies today are "community manager, community/technology evangelists" etc. which Bentley don't have and don't want understand such activities as a profession.

    With regards,

      Jan

  • I don't mind if it takes a week or a month longer until the next update as long as it's stable and doesn't contain the same old bugs and mistakes over and over again. I'd really like to see it properly tested in a working environment, not only in a programmer's idealistic world.

    One thing that really annoys me about the updates is that we Germans have to wait ages until our localized version gets published. Microstation CE German usually gets released about 2-4 weeks after the English version. The German Powerdraft takes at least 4 more weeks. We're almost always about  the last language group to receive their version. Having a translator's degree myself I know what it involves to translate software... I hope that at some stage Bentley releases all languages on the same day! That's not rocket science, it just needs some patience until all translations have rolled in.