I never bought I program that was named after it's version anyway, but thinking about the software I'm downloading I have to say that yes, version number if stated is important to me. For example if I'm looking at an open source database, where there can be found different programs having almost the same purpose I will always try first the one that has reached version 4.x over some other one which is still at 0.x or 1.x.
I realize that it's mainly psychological as there is no evidence that 4.x means better than 1.x (maybe it is even buggier the first one that they had to realise so many versions to make it work), but I think that it still has a role.
Then again you can see big software houses that rarely state the real versions of their products, probably for that reason. The fashion now is to name yuor products by the year they were released in. Some examples that come into my mind could be Windows of course, but also Ubuntu releases, Norton antivirus ecc...
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I never bought I program that was named after it's version anyway, but thinking about the software I'm downloading I have to say that yes, version number if stated is important to me. For example if I'm looking at an open source database, where there can be found different programs having almost the same purpose I will always try first the one that has reached version 4.x over some other one which is still at 0.x or 1.x.
I realize that it's mainly psychological as there is no evidence that 4.x means better than 1.x (maybe it is even buggier the first one that they had to realise so many versions to make it work), but I think that it still has a role.
Then again you can see big software houses that rarely state the real versions of their products, probably for that reason. The fashion now is to name yuor products by the year they were released in. Some examples that come into my mind could be Windows of course, but also Ubuntu releases, Norton antivirus ecc...