[CONNECT] Release of Update 12?

Mark.. I guess that's what happens when you give the unhappy users a voice....  what Bentley do with this is the question we all want to know.

Bentley must be seeing a decline in users and Select revenue

3. is so true.

Let's just hope CE doesn't stand for customer evasion ;-)

I can only conclude Bentley has shifted it's focus elsewhere, Microstation is now a very low priority. I used to be a big proponent of Microstation, telling anyone who would list what a great product it was. Bentley has turned me 180 degrees, Microstation is today a poor product, full of bugs, overpriced.

R12 will be out very soon, I've been told, but only a very few bugs will be fixed.

Jan,

what you described is what Bentley is doing for years already. If I remember correctly, maybe 10 years ago on previous discussion groups, you, me and other users wrote almost the same. so why do you think they would change something? that's the way how their management and marketing works. and that's the way where it will end. users moving to other software.

what is funny, when I asked my business contact in Ireland about increasing the Select price, I was told that now I get more and better software. so I asked if they mean CONNECT version and if they check many negative threads posted on this page. the answer was that yes, they mean CONNECT and they do not see any problems :-)

I didn't want to chime in on this, but being a user of many other CAD/3D modeling software packages, even CONNECT with all its issues is still faster, handles much larger data sets better and more responsive that some of the other products I use. People I know who are long time users of other packages will happily wait 20 mins for a large file to open, or clumsily try to rotate a model in 3d and get a fatal error, losing 30 mins of work. Confusingly they are happy apologists for all the flaws in the product they use - must be amazing marketing, I've never understood it...

That being said, CE does is a step backwards regarding refinement compared to v8i and much work needs to be done to give the users a quality product that they can rely on to do their work. I suppose, why have a better product if no one knows it exists...

Maybe I'm just a glass half full guy?