It was at a recent trade show, after a major DAW manufacturer cancelled our meeting, that I realized I was relieved to be off the hook. I always enjoy meeting with this person, and I use and like their products. But I was relieved to not hear about some new software/hardware improvement, one that I would eventually be forced to purchase and painfully install. In most cases, I never look forward to these software upgrades. The word "upgrade" is a bit of an oxymoron. We get a batch of new features, but they are usually ones I don't care about. Everything on my computer begins to run slower and gets a bit more buggy. Great. I usually have to update my OS, and then other applications that previously worked fine suddenly seem to need to be changed as well. To be fair, every second or third major update of my current DAW seems worthwhile.