NWP 3: Great news!
Posted: 2018-10-23 23:08:34
Having just installed it, I haven't had time to try out any of the new features; I've simply noticed that my 5.2 Mb daily notes file renders much faster under the new version than under the previous one.
But to be quite honest, I'm delighted to be given an opportunity to pay some actual money to Nisus, a company whose business model seems to me to be frugal to say the least. I note that each time I've bought a new Mac in recent years, I've found myself repurchasing a complete edition of Microsoft Office: there may be a way to avoid this, but each time I've found their sign-up conditions so complicated, and their insistence on shooting me up into the "Cloud" so irritating that I've simply resigned myself to repurchasing the thing. All in order, basically, to use Excel every day for my accounts and to very occasionally open a file that someone sends me in ".docx" format.
The contrast with Nisus couldn't be starker. Not only can I pass from one Mac to the other using the same license key, but each time I have a question I know where to go to ask it. There's no pressure, implicit or explicit, to cough up more cash, or to provide my date of birth, purchase history or be put in touch with "friends" I've never heard of, and who may or may not be actual human beings.
All of this is great, but it has often made me wonder whether Nisus was not yet another of the many companies that was about to vanish, swallowed up in the ongoing craziness of Silicon Valley capitalism.
OK: this message is in danger of turning into yet another rant.
I simply hope this new version will be a great success, both technically and commercially! Go Nisus!
But to be quite honest, I'm delighted to be given an opportunity to pay some actual money to Nisus, a company whose business model seems to me to be frugal to say the least. I note that each time I've bought a new Mac in recent years, I've found myself repurchasing a complete edition of Microsoft Office: there may be a way to avoid this, but each time I've found their sign-up conditions so complicated, and their insistence on shooting me up into the "Cloud" so irritating that I've simply resigned myself to repurchasing the thing. All in order, basically, to use Excel every day for my accounts and to very occasionally open a file that someone sends me in ".docx" format.
The contrast with Nisus couldn't be starker. Not only can I pass from one Mac to the other using the same license key, but each time I have a question I know where to go to ask it. There's no pressure, implicit or explicit, to cough up more cash, or to provide my date of birth, purchase history or be put in touch with "friends" I've never heard of, and who may or may not be actual human beings.
All of this is great, but it has often made me wonder whether Nisus was not yet another of the many companies that was about to vanish, swallowed up in the ongoing craziness of Silicon Valley capitalism.
OK: this message is in danger of turning into yet another rant.
I simply hope this new version will be a great success, both technically and commercially! Go Nisus!