Another factor is the "grace period" that GPSoftware grants for new purchases.
With a few exceptions, such as Nero, buying a particular version of a software package today will come with free upgrades to the next version if it comes out in the next XX days.
Software houses vary in the size of XX. In some cases it can be months.
A quick scan of the GPSoftware doesn't tell me what their policy is.
All good and helpful information, and here's my slightly different take on it:
If you like the software NOW, and it holds value for you NOW... then buy it now. Then one, two or three years from now after v10 is or isn't released, you'll still be able to enjoy the value you determined 'today' that you held for v9...
And at some future date when v10 comes out, you can decide if the changes are worth the price of "upgrade" which isn't necessarily the same as a new license; and at that time decide to buy it or hold out to begin this cycle again for whenever v11 might or might not come out.
I know you're looking to get the most monetary life out of your 'current' purchase without feeling like you might be MISSING out later on whenever a new version comes out... but you can always go on your merry way enjoying your initial purchase until such time as your wallet catches up with your belief that you HAVE to have whatever features end up in the next release .
Side Note: GPSoft is EXTRAORDINARILY generous to us in FREE feature enhancements within a given versions life-cycle. It "may" be the case that a new version at some point down the road happens to come out for Winv7 support. IF GPSoft decide to "sell" Winv7 support as part of a version upgrade, it will most likely be because making Opus work the same way we enjoy today on XP or Vista (which wasn't the exactly the same as XP) took alot of work to get right... not to arbitrarily "cash in" on a new Windows release. An app that's as dependent on shell interop and such as Opus is just isn't like 'other' apps that have no significant 'system' dependencies that can be 'drastically' changed between versions of Windows. And we should all HOPE we see some really drastic changes in Winv7, particularly related to filesystem (we ever gone see WinFS?)...
And who knows... we may very well see a new point or major release of Opus before Winv7... time will tell.
[quote="steje"]All good and helpful information, and here's my slightly different take on it:
If you like the software NOW, and it holds value for you NOW... then buy it now. Then one, two or three years from now after v10 is or isn't released, you'll still be able to enjoy the value you determined 'today' that you held for v9...
And at some future date when v10 comes out, you can decide if the changes are worth the price of "upgrade" which isn't necessarily the same as a new license; and at that time decide to buy it or hold out to begin this cycle again for whenever v11 might or might not come out.
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This sums up my thinking.
The gap between versions has impressed me.
I assumed it was a matter of months, not year(s).
Waiting on my paycheck for this month.
Then I'll seal the deal.
