They already lost me 3 years ago. Their licensing fees per annum for a single home user (not a corp or professional) are astronomical. It took thesecats ove a year to finally recognize that I had purchased Mathcad 15 under an offer during a conference they hosted and in their eStore environment and I spent the year arguing tha they never provided the license info to acivate the product. Then I was sent around the proverbial redtape racetrack proving it,
I let my subscription lapse. I do not like Mathcad Prime x.x of any version compared to Mathcad 14 and 15. Because of this, I cannot move my software (rightfully paid for by me) to a more modern platform due to the locking of the activation to the machine it is on. If I wish to migrate, I get the privalege of having to subscribe again at $250-$300 to just simply do that. I have never needed their support before and do not need it now. I simply want to move my copy to a more modern PC. Afterall, there are no machines guaranteed for a lifetime!
So, as much as I like the original MathSoft versions of Mathcad from version 3 thru 14, I hve decided that Mr. Big Pants, PTC can just stick the product right up their rectal torus and have gone to Wolfram Mathmatica ... not a nice pretty exchange; but, certainly not filled with extortionist activities that PTC treats their home users with.
-- Glenn Kelly