I had a piece of equipment that was working fine for years and there was no real need to upgrade since it still worked. However, recently the company decided to cut off Internet services for the product where people literally can\u2019t even login to use the product. This isn\u2019t uncommon for end-of-life products where they will no longer receive updates. But this essentially makes the product useless in this case and the company never said it was cut off officially.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s one bad thing of all these apps that are connected to the cloud which require constant login verifications as an example where when the time comes you will be forced to upgrade. That \u2018s why I usually still prefer to use products that aren\u2019t 100% dependent on being able to connect to a server to even work. Word processors are one of those items as the basic standalone still works and I can imagine the headache if you had to connect online always just to start it. Good for business but bad for consumers I many ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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