It's very different when you work in a corporate IT group or if you're a consultant doing work for hire vs. a company selling software commercially. In the latter case, you always need to be adding new features, enhancing the UI, changing things in an effort to get people to upgrade and continue driving revenue. As we know, those features don't always work out (Metro). Other times the changes take a while to catch on (ribbon). Still other times, competition jumps on areas where you didn't do so good (I'm a Mac, I'm a PC). Sometimes you get it right too (Win 7).

>In my personal software develpment I always attempt to upgrade to new helpful features, but I usually don't make it so different that it requires a lot of thinking on those who have used the software for years. Am I one of the few who think this way, or is the industry moving so fast we feel compelled to make something different just to make it seem more modern or just different - often times at the expense of productivity?
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>Just wondering......