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Originally Posted by filburt1

Respectfully, do you really think people are going to religiously check vB's product page to check for new versions? Windows XP SP2's auto-updating enabled by default was set by Microsoft because they knew people never check Windows Update every day. The majority of vB users probably will never upgrade minor versions of vB because they don't know better.

To be perfectly honest, checking for new versions is a task that is the user's responsibility. It's not up to the developer to force the issue, in my opinion.

Most applications won't tell you if there's a new version or not. And the ones that do usually give you a way to turn that feature off in that program's Preferences.


Really, that's all I'm asking for - a way to turn off the Call Home feature completely.


By all means, go ahead and put a version check in, if you think that it does more good than harm for your users. You can even program your app to enable it by default. Just give the users a way to shut the damned thing off.


Is that really such a horrible thing to ask?