In the PTC product calendar (http://www.ptc.com/cs/product_calendar/PTC_Product_Calendar.htm#RANGE!A474) will be prompted to Mathcad Prime 3.1 F000. Has anyone heard anything about this?
Werner Exinger wrote:
So I had not Prime as a whole, being just one big design failure, in mind.
Now, now Werner 
Mike Armstrong wrote:
Werner Exinger wrote:
So I had not Prime as a whole, being just one big design failure, in mind.
Now, now Werner
Sorry if that sounded too harsh, but apart from the many missing features much of what makes the use of Prime so inconvenient, uncomfortable up to impossible, is not due to a bug but a deliberate implementation. So a simple series of bug reports to try to get PTC fix whats wrong with Prime doesn't seem appropriate.
On the other hand PTC keeps telling us that Prime is an improvement and so it seems that a lot of Primes drawbacks are not seen as such by PTC. In the blog you pointed us to in a recent post of yours, Andrew McGough from PTC wrote: "Our continuing efforts are focused on maintaining that ease of use..." . Given what we have seen so far, thats a threat!
Werner Exinger wrote:
Mike Armstrong wrote:
Werner Exinger wrote:
So I had not Prime as a whole, being just one big design failure, in mind.
Now, now Werner
Sorry if that sounded too harsh, but apart from the many missing features much of what makes the use of Prime so inconvenient, uncomfortable up to impossible, is not due to a bug but a deliberate implementation. So a simple series of bug reports to try to get PTC fix whats wrong with Prime doesn't seem appropriate.
On the other hand PTC keeps telling us that Prime is an improvement and so it seems that a lot of Primes drawbacks are not seen as such by PTC. In the blog you pointed us to in a recent post of yours, Andrew McGough from PTC wrote: "Our continuing efforts are focused on maintaining that ease of use..." . Given what we have seen so far, thats a threat!
I do appreciate where you are coming from and feel the same. I consider myself a Mathcad enthusiast and have pushed my company to purchase many licenses over the years. However, since the release of Prime we have not renewed our maintenance as I have struggled to find a case for it.
However, I am in a situation where I do not have the time to start again with a new product and personally do not want to. I do believe Prime will get there and feel the lack of progress has been down to an underestimate from PTC regarding re-writing Mathcad and also believe the release of Windows 8 has slowed things down.
Maybe blind optimism.........
