You know Engineers they love to change things

bergsten

I just did an upgrade to Native Access to 3.10.3. I've been an NI customer for years and up until recently everything worked flawlessly.

Now, for no obvious reasons, NA has completely changed. Different UI. Hangs all over the place. Repeated invocations sometimes just work, other times it hangs on loading products, installing who knows what. Asks for user/password on occasion when it didn't before. Updates sometimes work, sometimes leave some as not updated when they were.

I have zero confidence in the (new?) NI developers in being able to fix anything so I'm not going to even try - my time is valuable too.

Suffice it to say to NI (and everybody else in the computer industry) - PLEASE STOP CHANGING THINGS FOR NO REASON AT ALL. STOP USING OPEN SOURCE LIBRARIES THAT DON'T WORK. STOP ADDING THEFT PROTECTION THAT NEGATIVELY IMPACTS YOUR HONEST USERS.

Once over this hurdle, I'm not going to buy or upgrade any NI product any more, the time expended and the risk of complete failure to use are too risky.