Where O Where Could Our DVD's be???

It was a warm and typical Southern California day.  The sun was shining, kids were out playing, and there was a yellow DHL van pulling up in front of the office.  This hard working delivery guy was dropping off a small 2 pound box.  Inside, the contents of the newest version of Solidworks!  The date was August 24th, but the year was 2006!  So here one year, and two months later, the DHL guy is no where in sight.  The summer has passed, Halloween is here, but we have no Instant 3D! 

Ben Eadie over at The SolidMentor Site received his a few days ago, so does this mean we could be getting a visit from jolly ole St. DHL Guy any day now?  Now don't get me wrong my life doesn't revolve around the annual release of Solidworks, it's just that you start to wonder what's going on behind the scenes that delays shipments of new software.  The 2008 download has been available since early September, but aren't we told to uninstall downloaded versions once disc's arrive?  If so, why do it twice?  Also, it seems as if what will be arriving may be Service Pack .1!  So will the "I'm going to wait for the first service pack before I upgrade" crowd upgrade as soon as this disc arrives?  Technically it would be the first service pack, right?

So just a little humor, and a jab at the Solidworks folks while we patiently wait for the yellow van to pull up, oh wait, I see a van........

Nope, false alarm, it was a flower delivery van.  Well at least someone has something to open!

So have you received your DVD yet?  Maybe one of the Solidworks folks will chime in and give us an update!  Until then I guess I will go back to working in software thats so last year now, but it could be worse, it could be Inventor right?

Comments

[Anna Wood]

Mike,

Our DVD arrived on Wednesday. I have heard other reports on the internet of them starting to arrive this week.

The DHL truck is on the way.... :-)

Cheers,

Anna

[Josh]

I'm just hoping it comes with another notepad. I've almost used all the ones from 2007!