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This morning, I got a popup as I was pulling some video from the dash cam micro SD, new version of the VLC media player available.
To be fair, I'm on Win7 Pro on this older laptop.
I download and install, it no longer works, at all. Crashes every time it's launched.
What was very cool is they have their archive available and so I thought back and know that I got this dash came around March 2023. I uninstalled, and installed the version from March and all is good.
Yes, I should have remembered that this machine is running Win7 (I declined a free upgrade on purpose--I have BMW software installed that does not run on Win10), so I should have not installed.
But, software in general that I can see from work, generally is full of bugs, yet there is always this pressure to upgrade to the latest/greatest. And when we do, problems.
I also think developers are under the gun to churn out new and higher numbers and revisions etc., and like everything, the quality is questionable.
Going all the way back to the above, for some reason, I could not play the videos from the dash cam the first time I tried. I searched online and VLC seemed to be a good player to choose, and it worked. And I've used it since....
Any good/bad software upgrade stories? I did brick a brand new Zebra ET56 tablet once by shutting it off when it was doing an update, had to send it back as it had both warranty and contract coverage...
To be fair, I'm on Win7 Pro on this older laptop.
I download and install, it no longer works, at all. Crashes every time it's launched.
What was very cool is they have their archive available and so I thought back and know that I got this dash came around March 2023. I uninstalled, and installed the version from March and all is good.
Yes, I should have remembered that this machine is running Win7 (I declined a free upgrade on purpose--I have BMW software installed that does not run on Win10), so I should have not installed.
But, software in general that I can see from work, generally is full of bugs, yet there is always this pressure to upgrade to the latest/greatest. And when we do, problems.
I also think developers are under the gun to churn out new and higher numbers and revisions etc., and like everything, the quality is questionable.
Going all the way back to the above, for some reason, I could not play the videos from the dash cam the first time I tried. I searched online and VLC seemed to be a good player to choose, and it worked. And I've used it since....
Any good/bad software upgrade stories? I did brick a brand new Zebra ET56 tablet once by shutting it off when it was doing an update, had to send it back as it had both warranty and contract coverage...