Why is Bentley discontinuing support for select series? Are you trying to force us to use The Connect addition?
I'm not thrilled with the interface with Connect. And from what I have been reading I am not alone.
I HATE HATE HATE THE RIBBON, I hate all ribbons but I think this one is the worse. There are too many clicks to get to the task you want to go to.
Back in the old days, Bentley was proud that they required fewer mouse clicks \ keystrokes to perform a task compared to Autocad. That workflow went out the window. Using JUST the ribbon just count how many clicks you have to make. LESS IS MORE!
If V8i licence servers are to be turned off, I would imagine Bentley will have to provide users with some method that will allow perpetually licensed software to change from online licence authentication/logging/monitoring to an offline solution. It would probably be similar to node-locked however that wouldn't work because a single-license can be used on multiple machines (just not at the same time).
Far simpler to switch V8i to licensing to the CONNECT client I would imagine.
RobertArnold said:The point is that we should be able to continue to use the products that we have installed on our machines, regardless of if there is "support" for them
As have paid/bought the programs shouldn't we have access to the old programs even when not supported?
Tried to get one of our staff to use CE the other day. In the end they gave up and went back to SS4, as the files they were working on were just plain slow in CE!! Bentley, you need to sharpen anythings up and get CE to match SS4 in terms of speed and usability!!
Hi,
The difference is this: In previous versions, when support stopped, everything kept on going. All the computers in our office still have Microstation 7/J installed and operational. (If my boss's computer still worked, we'd probably still have a MacIntosh Microstation too!) Microstation 7 is not supported, but I can still use it to access our Microstation 7 projects which used an internal feature that was not carried through to Mstn 8. All our computers have Microstation V8i (SS3) installed. (SS4 had bugs that messed up the printing of our projects and very quickly got removed and replaced with SS3.) In addition to those, all our computers have Microstation Connect Upate 12 installed. So all our users have the choice of which version to use. (FYI, no one uses Connect unless they absolutely have to!)
The point is that we should be able to continue to use the products that we have installed on our machines, regardless of if there is "support" for them. Previous updates did not disable our out-of-support products. Now when they shut off the SelectServers, our previous versions may not have access to their licenses, rendering them useless for production.
On a side note, we do have the license adapter installed for Microstation V8i (SS3), so right now we are going through the Connection License Server with SS3. Of course, I'm also wondering how long it will be before that breaks...
--Robert
SWINGING THE HATCHET MODE ON...
Thank god our customers do NOT force us to use Bentley Products
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