Download this trial version of our software: bad example

in code on 2014-06-16 13:54 (#3NS)

Giving potential users the chance to test your software to committing to buying it is important and useful. Too bad large corporations so infrequently make it easy to do so. Here's what it took one person in order to test drive a copy of Microsoft SQL Server Express 2014 : 12 steps and a lot of hassle. Good thing he's got a sense of humor.

Funny blog, but I've seen worse (Score: 2, Informative)

by marqueeblink@pipedot.org on 2014-06-17 02:03 (#24D)

It's actually about par for the course for installing any trial version of a pricey commerical software product. It's never free with no strings attached. They want your email address so they can follow up with non-ending streams of marketing, etc.