While, I'd love to have 100,000 people pay me $10/year for a subscription that they can't get away from easily, I'm not one of the people who are willing to buy into that kind of nightmare. Had they not done that, I'd have bought 11, 12, 13,14, and 15 and any other update they had. I think they are on 15 now, and at least, you can now go up to 8GB for the VM size, but No, I'm not allowing a company to hold a gun to my head and ask me for money yearly to allow them to keep pointing it at me. I talked to them at length about the issue. I'm running 64GB in the host for a reason. I could either buy into that, or 'upgrade' and have it go from a 16GB VM size to a 4GB size. Then 11 came along with their subscription requirement. I originally bought version 5 (or so), upgraded to 6, 7 8,9, and 10. Now, consider if this was some critical piece of software to your company, say, a system that ran 100 VMs that controlled your entire server farm (instead of just 5 VMs handling things like processing mail for my home domain, handling version control (for my personal projects), Plex server etc.) It expired, it warned me that I had 15 days to get it going or it might quit on me. I didn't upgrade (at home), but where I work they bought into the subscription model. They even told me that the software would continue to work even after the subscription expired. I had this issue with Parallels and their subscription model. ![]() I loathe the idea of having software expire on me and suddenly it is dead. I prefer to do a one time purchase of software, and update it when it is required. My preferences would be a solution that isn't a rent to never own - commonly called the 'subscription' model. The program used to be rock solid, in the last 1-2 years, it has gone to crud. Sometimes, it would connect back again successfully, other times it would not. It would just hang (maybe because it was a 4K screen on both sides?) and I'd have to stop the program and reconnect. I had been fighting with problems with Team viewer connecting from work> Home for months and months anyway. I uninstalled Team Viewer, and have started using one of their competitors products. I could have driven home in this much time! And was told that I needed to upgrade my phone - which was already on the latest version. (I have never gotten a reply)įinally another 15 minutes had past, so it was now 40 minutes from the original time I wanted to connect. I tried from my phone, but it said that I had to wait 15 more minutes! It again said that I needed to upgrade to the latest. I waited, putting off what I wanted to get done. I installed the latest, it then said I couldn't connect again for 15 minutes as I had 'connected' before that. I didn't see how it could stop working when it was working yesterday. It then lied to me, saying that I needed to upgrade my local machine's Team Viewer install to match the remote Team Viewer's install. But in this case, I just needed to connect for a second to do something. ![]() Well, heck, that was all the longer I needed to connect (I often would just leave it connected and flip back to it to view my home e-mail - that way I didn't have to have e-mail routed to a work machine). Then, out of the blue, it came up saying 'commercial use detected' - and it said I could only connect for 5 minutes. In short, I used Team Viewer a LOT, it was awesome. Several VMs that I could connect to, including a MineCraft VM for my son. A computer to run NetFlix on (before it was built into the TV). I have had many computers at home file servers, Plex Servers, my Windows and my OS-X computers. Greetings! After one, or maybe two decades of recommending TeamViewer to all of the companies I've worked for - and as a consultant doing 3-6, sometimes a year contracts, I've made this recommendation many times! However, I used their software to connect to my home computers from work.
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