I just read about this "development" earlier today. Having invested 17 years (and the corresponding amount of $$$ in licences and support agreements) in memoQ as a desktop client, to say that I'm less than thrilled about the prospect of the application being effectively deprecated is a gross understatement.
I haven't used any web-based translation environment for many years, but my hunch is that such an environmentally will inevitably come with constraints that don't apply to a desktop client. I'd also bet heavily on memoQ charging a monthly subscription that works out substantially more expensive than the annual fee I currently pay to keep my support agreement up to date.
I have heard a few cases of writing tools using a browser framework to manage local resources effectively, but I haven't tested them myself, so it's a dubious hypothetical to me that we'll maintain the control we need with these planned developments. We'll see. When Balazs Kis was in Lisbon two months ago, I asked about what I had heard about this abandonment of the desktop and expressed my concerns, but he didn't offer anything that inspired either comfort and alarm, and since I had heard from memoQ for about a decade that Language Terminal would be shut down, and yet it just continued, I didn't give it as much thought as I probably should have.
But now Language Terminal is cold in the grave, taking our INDD processing capabilities and previews for InDesign INDD and IDML with it, and it seems that in less that a decade... a year? two? memoQ desktop may follow. I hope now that the company has triggered alarm in so many quarters that clear answers will be forthcoming. What will be the fit of the new SlavelanceQollars™? And will we have a choice of colors as long as that choice is orange? Enquiring minds want to know....
But as I hinted above, I see interoperability returning to the foreground in the future in one form or another, and I hope to help others do the right thing, whatever that may be.
Interoperability is all well and good but the fact remains that those of us who have been loyal users of memoQ for a very long time may find ourselves out in the cold and looking for a new home.
I'll be there too with an extra coat or two to share if I can. I'm no less disgusted than you until further notice. I've had the impression for a while now that some people have been hiding, but my hope was that they were merely hiding from me rather than hiding something like the dark future this sounds to be at this point.
I just read about this "development" earlier today. Having invested 17 years (and the corresponding amount of $$$ in licences and support agreements) in memoQ as a desktop client, to say that I'm less than thrilled about the prospect of the application being effectively deprecated is a gross understatement.
I haven't used any web-based translation environment for many years, but my hunch is that such an environmentally will inevitably come with constraints that don't apply to a desktop client. I'd also bet heavily on memoQ charging a monthly subscription that works out substantially more expensive than the annual fee I currently pay to keep my support agreement up to date.
The future does not look rosy.
I have heard a few cases of writing tools using a browser framework to manage local resources effectively, but I haven't tested them myself, so it's a dubious hypothetical to me that we'll maintain the control we need with these planned developments. We'll see. When Balazs Kis was in Lisbon two months ago, I asked about what I had heard about this abandonment of the desktop and expressed my concerns, but he didn't offer anything that inspired either comfort and alarm, and since I had heard from memoQ for about a decade that Language Terminal would be shut down, and yet it just continued, I didn't give it as much thought as I probably should have.
But now Language Terminal is cold in the grave, taking our INDD processing capabilities and previews for InDesign INDD and IDML with it, and it seems that in less that a decade... a year? two? memoQ desktop may follow. I hope now that the company has triggered alarm in so many quarters that clear answers will be forthcoming. What will be the fit of the new SlavelanceQollars™? And will we have a choice of colors as long as that choice is orange? Enquiring minds want to know....
But as I hinted above, I see interoperability returning to the foreground in the future in one form or another, and I hope to help others do the right thing, whatever that may be.
Interoperability is all well and good but the fact remains that those of us who have been loyal users of memoQ for a very long time may find ourselves out in the cold and looking for a new home.
I'll be there too with an extra coat or two to share if I can. I'm no less disgusted than you until further notice. I've had the impression for a while now that some people have been hiding, but my hope was that they were merely hiding from me rather than hiding something like the dark future this sounds to be at this point.