Worse than the cost of the version upgrade is the disruption to your patients and the practice of updating software on all of the necessary machines.
Will the spring 2011 Playstation user buy a new upgrade-version console ten years from now?
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The app underwent massive upgrade in version 3.0, which was released on February 1 this year.
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Our biggest success through this program has been our upgrade to version 7.0 of the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application.
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People could upgrade to the upgraded version and get a discount by extending their subscription.
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As adoption increases, companies can upgrade to the premium version.
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Another factor facing Adobe is that it is becoming more and more difficult to convince users to pay to upgrade to the latest version when older versions are acceptable.
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He expected there to be great interest in Firefox 3.0 because most users of the browser tend to upgrade to the latest version as soon as it comes out.
The company notes that anyone who buys a PlayBook now will be able to upgrade the the next version of the OS when it ships in February at no extra cost.
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For all its flash and flair, "Tekken Tag Tournament" is not a huge upgrade from the PlayStation version of the game (Tekken 3), and it may not be worth a purchase for some.
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And later this year, when the hundreds of millions of people who have Adobe Flash are prompted to upgrade to the latest version, they'll have the option to download the new Adobe Media Player.
Earlier this week at a press event in Tokyo, DoCoMo announced that all of its Android phones and tablets would come bundled with Evernote, and that those who buy one of the phones during the next year will be able to upgrade to the premium version of Evernote for free.
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Perhaps if you priced them just a bit more reasonably -- no one's asking for anything free here, and go ahead and offer a premium titanium-plated version for the suckers -- the upgrade path wouldn't be so painful.
At precisely 9 a.m. this morning, I plugged in my first-generation iPhone, booted up iTunes and excitedly began the process of updating the phone to software version 2.0--an upgrade that should allow me to install and use the new iPhone applications from the iTunes store.
In one example, many companies never bothered to upgrade to Microsoft's last version of its operating system, Windows Vista, in part because of technical issues with the software when it was first released.
Well-known HTC phone modder Football doesn't want us to get comfy: he claims to have both obtained a leaked version of Sense 4.1's ROM Upgrade Utility (RUU) and folded it into the 2.2 update to his Maximus firmware for the international One X.
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Given the amount of time the company has taken to launch this upgrade (Playbook was launched in April with the next upgrade scheduled for October), we expected this version to finally provide all the above mentioned functionality that should have actually been present in the original version.
According to Daily Tech, you can get around that pesky requirement to have Windows XP or Windows 2000 already installed on your PC by instead using the upgrade DVD to first install a 30-day trial version of Vista --that's done simply by not entering the product key when prompted to do so during the installation.
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Boeing is likely to seek approval from its board as soon as next month to sell a new version of the company's 777 jetliner, following years of work to upgrade its best-selling plane.
So it was that I embarked on an upgrade trek for my European i9000 with CyanogenMod to get their latest stable CM9 version and try to bring my aging device kicking and screaming into the Ice Cream Sandwich age.
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By the time Microsoft's impressive looking upgrade to windows - Vista - comes along in the Autumn, along with the next version of Windows Media Player, it may have got the wireless exchange of high definition video around the home working.
The general rule is that you can upgrade your Microsoft software without losing the ability to use the related software and documents that that previous version was working with.
Compared with the US's current version of GPS, Galileo promises more accurate and more precise fixes, although the Americans themselves are planning to upgrade their infrastructure in the coming decade.
Some webOS developers were irritated that HP did not upgrade the U.S. versions of the Pre and Pre Plus with the 2.0 version of webOS when the platform was updated last fall.
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The initial version will only have 3G support for Verizon Wireless, but several months after release, owners will be able to upgrade to a 4G chip, like with other new 3G devices Motorola makes for the carrier.
There also will be new chips from Intel that aim to greatly increase battery life and a refined, beefed-up version of Windows 8, code-named Windows Blue, which will be available to current buyers as a free upgrade.
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