I am a long-time user of avast! 4.x home edition (since 2003). I’ve been thinking about upgrading to the professional edition, but I hear that a major new release, avast! 5, is coming out soon.
My question is this – if I were to buy a license for avast! 4.8 professional right now, and then 5.0 comes out, will the 4.8 professional license be compatible with 5.0 professional, or will i have to pay again to upgrade?
You will not have to pay for upgrade if the license is still valid.
I am not saying that the license key will be compatible (in the sense that you could insert v4 license key into v5 - maybe yes, maybe no) - but if it won’t, there will be a free way of converting the license into the newer format.
I congratulate Alwil team for this update scheme.
I had gave up on McAfee when I ‘lost’ my license key two months after I’ve bought it and they release a new version without allowing me to upgrade. Shame. Same on Symantec.