LabVIEW
LabVIEW 2012 Trial Period Only 7 Days???
@AKA_TG wrote:
Anyway Im just gabbing nonsense. Ignore my griping please.
Yes, this is a very old discussion, brought back from the dead by a simple request for the CDs. Unless somebody is in the middle of nowhere without any good internet connection, the right way is to download LabVIEW instead.
Even on a relatively slow connection it is much faster than sending out a CD.
@AKA_TG wrote:
Somehow this decision was made by a group of people sitting at a meeting somewhere.
Well, duh, if it is a long meeting, standing would be uncomfortable. It has to be "somewhere", right? The alternative is that the decision was made by e.g. something like Watson, which seems unlikely at this time, but could be true in the future.
I'd rather have a 45 day trial then a 30 day one. And that essentially is what NI has done. It asks do you want to extend the trial, and you put in your NI account and it is extended. Seems pretty easy to me. I didn't fill out any form I just said yeah I'm hooovahh, and they said 45 days. You can likely do the same thing with your virtual machine where the trial extends 45 days instead of 30. I hope you are using some kind of snapshot tool so you don't have to re-install everything too.
I can understand why a company would choose to not upgrade software licenses, but man I would hate to be forced to use 8.2 all day. Not that I can't (7.1 is probably still my favorite version) but my productivity increases a ton going to 2012 or 2013 from 8.2. Tons of cool tools that mean I get the job done faster and that software license cost doesn't seem like as big of a deal.
