What you dont see often is much feedback from the companys that are developing the software these lists and/or forums are dedicated to.

Its interesting to hear when a software company is responding to such requests. As a user, its always refreshing to get some sort of feedback, when you take the time to make a suggestion about a piece of software you use all the time.

And Doug, you can count on many more beta programs. We were thrilled with the success of this one and hope to do more of the same.

One way to reduce undue criticism for upgrades migh be to provide some way that the users (us) could see what has been requested. I don’t mean this to imply any sort of definite updates on your part, merely some of the suggestions that users have offered.

For example I suggested that it would help me if Listpro could save a list of filter setups to quickly arrange the data in a single click. If I could see that I was the only person to think that this would be good, then I can understand that any chances of it happening are unrealistic. Additionally if there was some sort of request list, I am sure that there will be suggestions form others that will make me think, ‘wow, that would really help, I’d like that too, in fact more so than my own suggestion”.

Since your e-wallet 5 Beta was such a success, I hope we will see many more such efforts from Ilium.

Keep up the great work!!

Doug

If you upgrade your system, Windows (XP, Vista, CE 5.0, CE 6.0) you’re very likely to backup your “My Documents” (or just “Documents” on Vista), but chances are that you’ll forget about the files somewhere deep within %PROGRAMFILES%, I know I have, in fact, the reason why I use multiple partitions (or memory cards with mobile handsets) is that I want to keep myself from accidentally deleting important files.

MSFT’s System Restore Points also omits any personal files and only saves application related data.

All in all, I think MSFT is just essentializing their way of storing data. One example would be Vista’s User directory (compared to “My Documents” in earlier versions):

The directory name is shorter, no space, it’s easier to manipulate via scripts that way and it’s in the root of your system drive, not in some obscure directory.

Take this with a grain of salt though, this is just what I think MSFT is doing, I might be totally wrong about it all.

You’d need to ask MS about that one. While there is no “official” word on this yet, what we’re getting is that with future versions of the OS’s any sort of ‘user edited’ files in the program directory will become a no-no. We’ve been strongly encouraged to make these changes.