>tfw they don't sell applications in neat cardboard

>>57453782
>tfw they don't sell applications with actual physical copies anymore, only product keys
>tfw "product" key is only valid for a duration because you're paying for a service and not a product

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>>57453782
>Looking at the boxes on the shelf
>See Microsoft Bob
>mfw

My company shares a building with these fools who have 20 copies of office 97 and a dozen boxes of NT. I wanted to take a picture with them but man did I feel autistic asking if it'd be ok.

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might want to join one of our retro circlejerks so you can let your inherited faux nostalgia keep you in the dark. 'Member boxed software?

>Six different service packs.
>Have to go buy a service pack after you get back home and find out you need it

>phone support

>have to order application updates and pay money for new version, and get it a week later, in the mail

web apps are replaced boxed software for a reason, write once, publish to anything that has a browser.

>>57456389
Yeah, everything's better now, that we have to use giant browsers with NOYOUDONTEVENTHINKOFCACHINGTHISSTATICASSET websit.. apps.

Oh yeah, and pay a monthly fee for it. It's both utter shit.

>>57453853
Leasing software is the new standard now. New cloud computing minded bullshit.

>>57456494
Things as a service are cancer.