What's the longest you've used a particular program version?

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List programs and Windows OSes if you like too :-)

I've used Office '97 since 1999. It came with a PC that I bought that year. It does the job, and there's an umbrella that covers 97/2000/XP/2003 anyway, making them effectively the same. 2007 with the new file format and interface is next-gen though.

Age of Empires II + expansion since year 2000. That game NEVER dies.

Mixmeister 3 (DJing software) since 2001. I tried Mixmeister 4 but I didn't like the fact that it changed the datestamp of your files. I preferred MM3's method of creating a separate cache folder that contains mix data for each MP3, leaving the MP3 themselves well alone.

Paintshop Pro 7 since year 2000. It does stuff that GIMP and PSD does - layers, both vector and raster, layer modifiers, alpha, brushes, plug-ins. For me it's fine, best £35 I spent.

I've never had a single version of Windows for long though. Longest was probably Windows XP for 3 years.
 
Up until January in my old job I was still using office '97 as well.

This is quite a tough question. I've recently (Windows 7 release I guess) updated virtually all my windows apps.

Prime95 still looks the same as it did a dozen years back. As does Winamp and media player classic, but they are all updates with the same retro skin.
 
At work we have legacy apps and software from the late 90s. At home...again, got some old games from the 90s but actual programs....probably office 2003.
 
Interesting thread. :)

For me the longest running program I've used was Westwood's original Red Alert (game). Still play it now from time to time. I just like the simplicity and the fact that the battles resemble a slightly more modern WW2 and the weapons are mostly quite realistic.

The longest going OS is Windows XP, although I have two computers (1 a laptop), running Windows 95 (486sx33) and Windows 98 (Pentium233MMX) running older OSes though. Both are even able to use the internet with our network should we want them to, however the 486 loads as if it's on dialup, even with Broadband! :D
 
I have DOS based text and hex editors that I use a few times a year when on someone else's machine that has nothing decent installed. They only date back to 1988 though as I have binned all the old stuff :)
 
I didn't upgrade mIRC for a good three years, because I hated having to mess around with config. Sadly I took the plunge recently :D
 
namnoc said:
I have DOS based text and hex editors that I use a few times a year when on someone else's machine that has nothing decent installed. They only date back to 1988 though as I have binned all the old stuff :)
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I still have a copy of XTreeGold for use on DOS boot disks.
 
philtor said:
Im still using Office 2007 :)
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Were you born yesterday?

It would be old classics like Planescape Torment (1999), Baldur's Gate (1998), Theme Hospital (1997), Fallout (1997), Civiliation 2 (1996), Transport Tycoon (1994), etc.

No applications are irreplaceable with modern versions nowadays, though.
 
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Also Ive been using paint shop pro 9 for yrs,, but Ive just had to upgrade to corel photo shop pro x4 as 9 wont load up anymore because of my graphics drivers:mad:

Been using live messenger 2009 with plus! for a good 2-3yrs now as I hate the new versions. But I can see having to upgrade that, as 1 of these days it will just not work anymore:(
 
Office 2007 for me off the top of my head, uni use 2010 but I can't be bothered to buy it when 2007 does all the same stuff, I haven't found any other problems yet.
 
I like to keep my Firefox up to date...

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