Tuesday, October 15, 2013

I've been Unfaithful Too Long it has got to End!

I think I first got to know you back in 2002 or 2003.  You were the total package.  So for me, moving away from anyone or anything I love that I've had a good time with is hard.  The long days and endless nights I spent getting to know you better I thought would never end.  But end it must.

Yes I have enjoyed every moment and I've grown in so many ways because of the difference you've made in my life.  I ranted and raved about how good you were to my family, friends, colleagues, and just about anyone who would listen.  You are truly great.  Don't take my moving on as a dent in your quality at all.  It is that sometimes we realize it is a time to move forward.  Let's face it, sometimes, change is inevitable.  Yes times have changed, loyalty is out the window.  People compete for all types of affection nowadays.  Some of it is not healthy and who stops to really care how their actions and reactions are going to impact how others feel.  They don't care about our history together.  They just care about what is good for them.

I've been dabbling in the grass on the other side of the fence knowing deep down inside I really don't want to let go. It has been years and I'm really getting too old to keep up.  You may be better off connecting with someone ten years your junior so you can reinvent yourself and be adorned with the feelings of being young again.  Go back to your developing stages you have had enough years in the limelight to see what has gone wrong and what has gone right and what will never happen with you again.

However, change sometimes is not wanted but necessary to move forward.  This is not a break up which will end badly this is a cease and desist giving you the opportunity to retire if you'd like.  I've held on too long.  I'm going to finally give it up today and try and completely move forward.  It's not going to be easy I'll probably want to come back and dibble and dabble at times.  You definitely have that comeback attraction.  Who knows, things may not work out and I may comeback permanently.  Right now it is best to move on.  I'm going to try hard and be good and keep looking forward.

Undoubtedly, you will always be my first love.  I was able to accomplish so much over the years with you.  I made so much money just from using you.  There are opportunities which would have never come available to me if I hadn't been trained how to work it with you.

Tears, tears, tears, I have to stop this and just move on.  But all in all I have had a ball.

Again, letting go of something I love so much is hard.  You're the only thing I ever wanted to know.  Let me stop.  Enough is enough.  But the bottom line is for so many reasons outside of my control I now have to let go.

See this big computer software company stopped supporting you.  I hung in there hoping they would realize the error of their ways and pick you back up.  They're not.  You've been out of the mix for too long.

MS FrontPage today is the day I officially retire you from my life as my main website development tool.  I am moving on to other pastures.  I am going to make SharePoint sites and InfoPath Forms my main web tools, yes they will be my new main squeeze.

I've always been a FrontPage girl but since Microsoft stopped supporting it years ago I really need to go ahead and move on too.  We were a match made in computer heaven.  You made me whole.

I wrote this for all the FrontPage enthusiasts as me who wish Microsoft would have never let this one go.  I've always been deemed a catalyst by others but this is one change I've found hard to incorporate.  As a consumer I know I have to just deal with it.  I wish software had a more democratic life cycle.  Let us as end users and consumers decide what we want to see enhanced in lieu of being canned completely.  I often wonder how much more money companies can keep if they keep what they have rather than start a whole new product development.

Granted, I already have one obstacle to overcome when seeking employment, now being in the over 50 age group.   We also have an issue with keeping up with the latest and the greatest of the technologies to be employable.  Just maybe because I am getting older and getting a little more set in my ways I don't want to see software change so often.   I used to love Lotus and WordPerfect.  When I was learning that software and perfecting it and becoming a guru in it I never foresaw either of them going away or becoming less popular either.

FrontPage in my personal opinion you were one of the most versatile all around software applications I had ever had the opportunity to know.  You will truly be missed.

When I miss a person or group of people where the relationship wasn't good I miss them pleasantly.  I'm still dealing with how I miss FrontPage.  There is neither bitterness nor bad feelings because FrontPage was so good, however, the miss I miss in you is what I will say is laid to rest for the peace I need to move on.  Thanks for the memories!