Now it wasn’t enough to fork out £60 for the latest gouge of the Star Wars franchise, you had to pay another £25 for the ‘season pass’ to unlock new levels.
#PARALLELS TOOLBOX PRICE SOFTWARE#
Adobe pulled the same stunt with Creative Suite, the accountancy software firms cashed in (of course), even the sodding games makers got in on the act. Once Microsoft had proved it was possible to convert millions of your own customers from occasional buyers to monthly donors, everyone wanted a piece of the action.
Now they just scrape £70 a year from your disposable income and add amazing new features such as… and, erm… No more waiting three years for a new version of Office that you probably wouldn’t buy anyway. Instead of selling us a new copy of Office once every ten years, when they’d actually added enough new features to justify the upgrade, they launched Office 365. For only(!) £6 a month, you’d have access to an ever-updating set of apps that dropped new features in as and when they were ready. Took us all for the cash-soaked frivolous idiots we clearly are. Because nobody got viruses in those days, right? The only swines who got away with charging a subscription fee were the antivirus companies, on the somewhat flimsy pretext that they were continuing to deliver updates that kept your PC safe. You liked a piece of software, you paid the price, you got to keep said software in perpetuity.
Parallels Toolbox for Windows is the straw that broke the camel’s back.Ĭast your mind back to the halcyon days of PC software. The software industry has spent the past five years on a monumental piss-take.
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