Newer is DEFINITELY not always better
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007Although I use Pidgin (formally GAIM) as my Instant Messenger of choice, I had a need to run Yahoo Messenger for something I was doing. Anyway, have you seen the latest Yahoo Messenger? Talk about bloatware. So for the sake of cleanliness, I wanted to install the OLD Yahoo IM. In searching for it, I ran across this site, http://www.oldversion.com/. As the name implies they keep older versions of popular software.
In general, you’ll find that the older versions of software are simpler, more stable, and perform a specific task (as good software should). Sometimes you don’t want all the bells and whistles of the latest and greatest version. In that case check out that site and see if they have it. If they don’t have it, you can always email me as well… I keep a pretty extensive library of old software versions for that very purpose.