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Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today

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On 2018-05-30 01:29:00 +0000, Helpful Harry said:

> On 2018-05-30 01:22:21 +0000, Helpful Harry said:
> 
>> On 2018-05-29 22:20:50 +0000, DipStick said:
>>> On 2018-05-19 08:34:01 +0000, Christoph L. Kaufmann said:
>>>> DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> schrub:
>>>>> 
>>>>> All this time I didn't realize Filemaker Inc was owned by Apple.  That
>>>>> explains the good Mac support!
>>>> 
>>>> Beware of any new Mac OS - your Filemaker won't work any more. With a
>>>> new free MacOS every year and customers prompted to update by apple,
>>>> Filemaker has trouble updating.
>>>> 
>>>> Windows OS are better in supporting a variety of Filemaker version.
>>>> Filemaker looks horribly on Windows, however :-(
>>>> 
>>>> Filemaker Inc. is managed by the Apple's finance dept, i.e. the only
>>>> contact they ever have is every two months when Filemaker has to
>>>> report and justify why they haven't doubled their earnings yet.
>>>> 
>>>>> PS-how long have you been using FileMaker?
>>>> 
>>>> 1997, the oldest version I've see is Filemaker 3.
>>> 
>>> I think you're exaggerating!
>> 
>> I would have started using FileMaker with version 3, possibly slightly earlier.
>> 
>> Helpful Harry  :o)
> 
> I should have added that I also got "stuck" on my own ancient computer 
> at versions 4 and 5  for *many* years. Then when the computer died I 
> briefly moved to version 7 when using a newer version of OS X on a 
> temporarily borrowed computer. Then I had to jump directly to version 
> 15 on my new Mac. I did use some of the intervening versions elsewhere 
> though.
> 
> Helpful Harry  :o)

Yeah, once I get used to software I don't want to learn another 
version.  I had that issue with Office 2008 - even though it was a 
complete piece of shit.  At the time I finally threw in the towel and 
learned iWork.

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FileMaker 17 Released Today Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2018-05-15 09:05 -0700
  Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2018-05-15 17:13 +0000
  Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-05-16 09:14 +1200
    Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-05-16 10:03 +1200
  Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> - 2018-05-15 18:35 -0400
    Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Christoph L. Kaufmann <clkaufmann@gmx.ch> - 2018-05-17 09:03 +0200
      Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> - 2018-05-17 16:07 -0400
        Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-05-18 09:53 +1200
          Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> - 2018-05-29 18:24 -0400
        Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Christoph L. Kaufmann <clkaufmann@gmx.ch> - 2018-05-19 10:34 +0200
          Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-05-20 10:37 +1200
          Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> - 2018-05-29 18:20 -0400
            Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-05-30 13:22 +1200
              Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-05-30 13:29 +1200
                Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> - 2018-05-30 19:03 -0400
                Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-05-31 13:49 +1200
                Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> - 2018-05-31 18:10 -0400
                Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-06-01 13:35 +1200
                Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2018-06-03 08:28 +0000
              Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2018-06-03 08:23 +0000

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