Users like me weren't starting a debate or such things! We simply telling users with old aged out-dated avast antivirus to upgrade to 2014. [...] Our job is to let users know that outdated programs not good enough and simply stating common sense.
Did it ever occur to you that the people you are posting to are much older in many cases, with much more experience on computers than you have? That know better what's best for them (or their company) than you do? You don't have a job here, you have a hobby. On top of that most of the replies were not just "advice from well-meaning people trying to help steer users in the right direction" but posts that ridiculed and attacked the people who wanted to continue to use an older version for their own VALID reasons.
The entire emphasis here should never have been on attacking people for using older versions, but on what can be done going forward to help users that ARE using older versions remain in compliance with AVAST and it's schedule of retiring software, going forward, without getting updated against their will again. Because happy users will stay with AVAST, and unhappy users won't. And since this is an AVAST support forum that IS the point and purpose.
Simply complaining about Avast GUI is just a poor bad excuse
For the umpteenth time, the GUI is annoyance but it was never the sole reason people wanted to stick with an older version, from what I read... and I read the entire thread so far. However it IS important to have a UI one is comfortable with especially since this IS security software. And it's certainly a factor in judging how much one likes or dislikes a program, whether it be an AV or a word processing program. And AVAST needs to near what people think about its UIs, along with the rest of the program.
and also I have read one of the comment made here is that they turned off the heurestics because too much false positive.
Something I would not do, but that is certainly their choice and why it upsets YOU, I don't know.
The regulars here take everything far too personally. This is just an AV and people are just wanting to work out the best way to use it going forward, and if someone says they want to use an older version that is still being supported, that is just as acceptable as using the newest version from everyone ELSE'S POV as it's not up to YOU or ME to decide which supported, active version of AVAST someone should use. Sure, make a point, politely, that the newest version is best if it works out for them... but if they don't like or want it for WHATEVER reasons, LET IT GO.
Bob complained about the length of this thread, but if everyone would just have accepted some people want to use old versions, none of the 'fighting' would be here, and the thread would be about 1 or 2 pages long. Or actually, it might have been longer but more productive, b/c the actual SUBJECT of the thread might have been discussed and more people might have joined in if the atmosphere wasn't poisoned by attacks.
To your credit, StaticGuy, you are one of the only ones who, while opposed to anyone using an old version, at least put forth a proposed solution to not getting updated without notice again. THAT's the direction this thread SHOULD have taken, as that addressed the SUBJECT and OP's concern.
