>>I love SnagIt, but hate the new interface in version 9.
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>With the honorable exception of Christian Ghisler's Total Commander, which does get more useful options in each version, I've discovered that I'm becoming very old-fashioned. New version of almost everything... proprietary... sucks. Now I realized this while I was typing it. Microsoft's featuritis virus has spread widely, and software companies are doing serious damage to mature and feature complete apps by revamping and reinventing them, adding unnecessary features, reshuffling the interface we got used to, mostly making it seemingly simpler, usually with the effect that things which were simple are now complicated, and things which were a bit hard to do have gone away.
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>Abandonware rulez.

I haven't used Office 2007, but supposedly they adopted that interface. I just find it a glitzy interface that offers no improvement in useability, but does let them justify the upgrade (actually some of the new features should do that on their own). And it lets them jump on the "we do it like M$" bandwagon, as if everything M$ does is correct just because they are M$. They want the integration with Office and have had it for quite awhile, but now they want it to look like Office. Well, guess what, I use it outside of Office almost exclusively and I'll be others do, too (there are other apps out there, as I'm sure you've noticed). So having it look like Office is no real benefit. To me, it's much harder now. Many apps are mature and guilty of things like this, as you mentioned.