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!
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?
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.
It's a bit weird in context of this discussion that no information about MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 10) has been released and now is avaialble for download. News about the release available here, dated to May 1st when this discussion was quite active.
Regards,
Jan
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Hi Jan,
Agreed. Unfortunately, Bentley already has stated the SS4 will be the last release of V8i and filing bug reports for SS4 is useless. (So I have not attempted to report SS4 issues to be corrected in SS10?) It's also interesting that they are only giving 6-7 months of "full support". It sounds like a band-aid that they will give to those who are contacting support with issues.
--Robert
The info on the website and from the SS10 installation dialog both clearly state it is only a consolidation of previous updates and a means to postpone users switching to CONNECT. Makes me wonder why the hastle with Connect Licensing. Why not continue the hosted license a bit longer? And why does that require a version SS10 anyway?
Well at least the folks at Bentley have been listening to our crying.
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