NewsGator 2.5 Upgrade - bad!
Jul.05, 2005 in
Product Reviews
Ok, so I get an email from NewsGator, saying I can upgrade to 2.5 from 2.0 for free, so I go for it, install it, and now it doesn’t work. They say it is because I have .NET Beta 2 installed (I have the 1.1 and 1.0 installed also). They say no fix until the end of the week.
Did they not test the release? I can’t believe they didn’t see any issues before they released it to the public.
I am kind of peeved about it as now I don’t have NewsGator on my laptop at home.
Update: after many days of fiddling with newsgator support I have decided to install version 2.0. So I install it and it works great. I am waiting to see if any new version they have doesn’t have issues. This was one of the worst upgrades I have ever dealt with!
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July 6th, 2005 at 9:15 pm
What the heck is NewsGator?
July 6th, 2005 at 11:07 pm
its an RSS aggregator that plugs into Outlook.
July 14th, 2005 at 5:16 pm
FYI - the .NET 2.0 problem was a known issue before the 2.5 release; when the release happened, we actually had a couple of guys on our development team up in Redmond working with the .NET team getting this resolved. We made the decision to go ahead and get 2.5 out the door, with a warning not to install it if you had .NET 2.0 installed:
“Note - If you have installed Microsoft .Net 2.0 BETA, NewsGator Outlook Edition 2.5 should not be installed. An upgrade to support the .Net 2.0 framework is coming soon.”
But in any case, your point is well taken. :-) We have a service release ready, which should be released any day now.
July 14th, 2005 at 9:03 pm
actually, if I recall, when I first downloaded the 2.5 bits, there was no disclaimer for the .net beta 2 issue, that came later. In any event, I have even tried it on another laptop where the .net beta 2 has never been installed and I was running into the same issue. 2.0 works great!, what happened? In any event, I got an email from support today too letting me know that the release was out that should fix any issues in the 2.5 first release.