Re: Insanity prevails?
Yep. Teamviewer, for example, does a similar thing. I use it about every 3-6 months to do tech support for various elderly family members, and it is the most frustrating thing to get the stupid "You have an outdated version of Teamviewer! Sorry, you must update to the latest version before doing anything!" message. Which means I then yet again have to coax said family member through the update process.
Yes, it's often as easy as "click the 'Help' menu, now click on Check for New Version, now wait for the Setup window to appear..." but if said family members were comfortable with following instructions like that, I wouldn't need to be using fucking Teamviewer in the first place... aaargh!
Dear software vendors. Unless there is some absolute, technical reason why an older version can't be used - i.e. you've changed the protocol so significantly that there is no interoperability - please don't enforce new versions "just because". And "security" is, IMHO, a crap reason for enforcing this. If someone's using an old version, warn them - warn others on the Zoom call too, if you really want - but grant them the autonomy of deciding on their own terms when to upgrade.
Especially because in too many cases these days, the reason for pushing a new version is that the marketroids have embedded new adverts or telemetry into it, and there is no benefit to the user.
Grrr. Rant over.
