My comments are based around a business case not personal.

When a business offers a life time of upgrades like DDI Software did on it's website then viewers would have an expectation of what that meant. The average person would have thought DDI Software would continue with the amount of updates that they have been experiencing since they purchased their version of Qimage.
 
You say Qimage Ultimate is a new product!!

How does that affect the relationship between you and your customers with regard to the original Qimage products?

As you are in the USA an alot of us are not, we are not covered by your comsumer laws although I think your Govt has changed that for internet use. In New Zealand if you offer a lifetime of anything we have to do just that, unless your business goes bankrupt. A good reccommendation to anyone going into busiess is "Don't offer what you can't afford".

I love your product an I would like to see it developed further. You say Win 7 64bit but I fail to see what you have done for 64bit. Where is the use of extra memory, where is GPU usage, why does it still install in Program Files(86).

If I do decide to buy Ultimate, the 64 bit ability would be am important consideration.

Will the 14 day version work as 64 bit?

Hi Fred!

I think the question is: is it running in 64-bit?  A lot of programs tolerate it but install in the Programs X86 folder.  They are operating in 32-bit.  Studio "takes advantage" of quad processors already (assuming checking the box to do so) but still is a 32-bit program.

Completely irrelevant!  The product that people bought with free lifetime upgrades is still supported and updated.  Qimage Ultimate is a new product.  I could very easily have done what any other company would do (and do all the time) and just retire Qimage and name the new product "Widget Pro" or something.  Free lifetime support means lifetime of the product, not YOUR lifetime, so many companies would say that a 12 year run of a product is enough: it's reached the end of its useful life.  The simple fact of the matter is that because you bought (and still have) free upgrades for the life of Qimage doesn't mean you can prohibit us from ever creating new software.  Fortunately I don't believe most of our user base is that disrespectful or ridiculous about it.  If I thought they were, I'd probably just do what the rest of the companies do and dump Qimage and say we're done with that as it has reached the end of its life.  I'm not doing that simply because I believe in supporting my customers.

Mike

I guess that makes me 1 in 5001.    Large, 32-bit, HDR-based panoramas can get there.

I don't want to go back to a 64-bit 128MB video card either.

Mike-

I merely responded to Fred.  The question was 'is it 64-bit software?'  The answer is no it is not.  Will it run in a 64-bit environment?  Yes, it will.  Does it still address CPU cores?  Yes.  I LIKE Studio.

In defense of QI software, people VERY rarely put the video in the equation.  Appearances and screen writing are affected by that also--sometimes more than CPU. 

Wow, I hope your stress level goes down.  No sense adding more than programming does already  .