Those good old versions...
Everyone heard of "those good old days....." and related stories everyone else has. I too have several similar stories but I am going to bore you with those. Lets talk about the sister stories of those old days related to good old versions of the software products we use. Look at the following:
Old Versions Available of Yahoo Messenger
Yahoo Messenger 3.0 (1.3 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 3.5 (1.9 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 4.1 (2.3 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 5.0 (2.2 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 5.5.1228 (2.6 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 6.1922 (4.5 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 7.0 (8.2 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 7.5.0.647 (7.7 MB)
AT and T Yahoo Messenger 8.0 (21 MB)
Most of you already see the problem here! Right? The size of the installation executable
has been increasing exponentially lately for all the things that a messanger isn't supposed to have. The latest version of Yahoo messenger has a list 6 hide/show things (status chooser, people tabs, toolbar, content tabs and Yahoo search bar) in it. And it installs 5 other things (Yahoo mail, Yahoo toolbar, Yahoo manager, Yahoo blah, and one more blah) on your hard drive along with the messenger. It also has an annoying and flashy advertisement bar in it.
Increasing the size of the installation exe just doesn't make sense, not everyone has a
highspeed internet and compared to 1.3 MBs to the latest version of 21 MBs is almost 20 times
increased in the size, has Yahoo messenger become 20 time more useful? At least I don't think so!
I am using the older version of Yahoo messenger and it works just fine without any of those people's tab and blah..
MSN messenger, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Winamp, Window Media Player, and most other things its the same story ....those old good versions.
posted by Vishy @ 5:59 PM
2 comments
2 Comments:
Looks like you are getting "comment spam" on your blog. I saw that you had a bunch of comments that all look similar and that link to some website or the other. I clicked on the link by "yugioh" and it takes you to a website that google marks as being dangerous.
Hmmm, this seems like the next spam challenge - Ani
Anyways, Vishy, empathise with you completely. But I like to enjoy yahoo launchcast for music and find the addressbook feature very useful. Since, disk space and internet speed isnt much of a deal, I dont mind a 20MB yahoo messngr. Yeah I hate when it installed all the things that I dont want. But Yahoo is here to make money not charity...they got to survive, hence I can understand.
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