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Open letter to Acronis

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This is a part of a conversation I had with an Acronis forumer, and I am willing to post my answers public.

Thanks [...], I think I can also understand your frustration as I found myself hopeless and helpless since Acronis TI 2013 for several times now when a Backup I relied on was not able to restore (ominous sector differ error).

Acronis has to go through hard times I guess as the product quality is very bad and they find a reason to release a new product every single year.

The "incompatibility" of TI 2014 with Windows 8 was really grasped. The current policy is ironically awesome: They don't fix issues instead carring the fixes out with the new version - or not. This was inofficially said by 2nd and 3rd Level support staff on the phone.

It is a shame but also the reason why I got 6 upgrade license for free because I complaint about this particular business practice!
I never thought that TI 2015 could end up even worse in some aspects.

Also got at least one free upgrade because of this for TI 2015, so saved about 9 licenses now just for claiming my rights on having a defect free software. TI 2015 has seen one or two patches now? I stopped counting, but it still has serious bugs, them being critically or not.

I insist on having a tool I paid for that is reliable, the most if it something related to data security. It would be ridicilous if one cannot rely on the backup application he owns. If so I could also use solutions from Arcserve :D

On your partition problem: better choose the Windows PE based version of Arconis to avoid drive letter issues. It is ashaming enough Microsoft still uses drive letters at all, that said as my role as Microsoft Certified Professional.

Cheers,
al Qamar

Verdict:
Acronis needs to change the support policy with limited live / phone / email support time and rather should introduce subscriptions instead of yearly updates and follow Microsoft example with Office 365.
If they fear their tool gets obsolete* they should not cut down features in new releases as they obviously did with TI 2015. People need reasons to buy it.

At best: Integrate TI 201x and DiskDirector in one product. Deliver constant updates instead pending them for a next release!

*Because of Microsoft Backup technology / WIM Images / AHCI etc.

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