TeamViewer: Upgraded whether you like it or not. Enjoy your ‘missing out’ benefits.

We're still using teamviewer here. We didn't have any security issues, but I heard about them. Purchasing a license has been a pain in the past, and it did go up this year for the price. I haven't tried others but I was looking into rustdesk. I see rustdesk also has security issues. For the perpetual licenses, they announced ending those a few years ago. We did have perpetual licenses. I was wondering how they would handle supporting those. For security, you'd think at some point the older versions are going to be a problem. So if they get rid of the old versions, that makes sense. And then they gave us a few years of the latest version until the end of this calendar year. All I need is for it to connect which it does. It's been rare that a connection couldn't be made. Not lately, but it more often in the past it was more of an issue of having the license type switched on the account and having to correct that. If it's Windows, Mac, of Linux, it can just connect. Macs with filevault need someone to log in to unlock that, but that's on Apple's side. And apparently the startup screens with certain updates or upgrades on a Mac also cut the internet connection. Teamviewer said that was on Apple's side. It doesn't require a user on the remote machine and doesn't need anyone on the remote machine to ok making a connection. If it's online, teamviewer can connect. That's what I need. I have computers and user in different places, traveling sometimes. It also displays the admin rights UAC pop up box which was a dealbreaker compared to other software we tested out long ago. It's also already in place, ready to use, and used daily at my place. It's become a daily tool. I saw the new interface pop up, only each time I start up teamviewer. I've always clicked out of it. I didn't hear good things about it. Thanks for the heads up on that. I've seen teamviewer working on things like meetings and augmented reality but I don't need them. All I need is to have access to that remote computer, and teamviewer pretty much all of the time does that. For rustdesk, if it's self-hosted, I found out if you don't pay, you don't have an address book. That can probably be worked around by keeping track of your rustdesk computer ID numbers from what I understand. That might be a small inconvience though, but it probably also means you don't have a list of computers that show online or offline like teamviewer has. I heard teamviewer considers a computer on Active Directory to be a work computer. And anything connection for any kind of work is considered work to them. We had a user who wanted to user their free teamviewer account asking about that once. If a free teamviewer account connects to a computer on the AD with the corporate box checked on the install, I think it flags that free account as breaking their rules. And in this user's case, it was for how they defined the rules. They wanted to remote into their work computer. Doesn't matter why to teamviewer. That's not personal use. I figured it's just how they detect things with programming. And we have a paid license so that user's problem wasn't my problem. Renewals with teamviewer can be a pain. This past cycle wasn't as difficult as others. It doesn't sound uncommon for software purchasing to be a pain with third party "value added" venders involved to help slow or prevent the purchase. For them having more security issues, I was wondering if that's because they're popular enough. And then, like Windows, if they have issues and fix them... Does that make them improved compared to a smaller thing that doesn't get attacked so it doesn't get compromised so it doesn't have to fix security issues? Like Windows vs. Linux. I do wonder what they're going to add. All I need is to be able to click on a user machine and bring it up.