#Logmein pro or team viewer free for free#
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#Logmein pro or team viewer free software#

However, while these free tools can be great for accessing your personal computer, they aren’t designed for providing professional support to your company’s or customers’ systems. “A lot of people are complaining that the once-free service is being taken away and they’ve only been given a week to either pay for LogMeIn Pro or switch to another free service, like Teamviewer. Thinking of changing to another free service? Stuart Facey, VP EMEA at Bomgar has the following advice…:

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and everyone yells at the owner about how they feel shafted instead of *thanking* the owner for providing such a useful service for free for so long. Everyone feels entitled to get whatever they want for free.” – Nicholasjay Then the service/product gets changed/removed/etc. Someone offers a service/product for free. With some just suggesting users should thank LogMeIn for provided the free service for as long as they did:

This is plenty of time to make a change.” – Zugmeister “…at the risk of not conforming to a potential lynch mob mentality, it would appear they’re giving me 6 months of pro service on my existing account before they turn it off. Though it appears not all customers are jumping ship with some reportedly being offered six months of pro service as an incentive to continue: For that reason, there is zero chance I’ll sign up for logmein pro.” – TX It’s a pretty blatant attempt to rush people into signing up for the paid program, because hey, give people a month’s notice to evaluate alternatives and the might find something else they like. “…I must say I might have considered signing up for pro, but the zero-notice cancellation of the free account has left a major bad taste in my mouth. It seems like it’s been relatively successful at luring customers to sign up and generating revenue for LogMeIn from the premium account subscriptions.”įorum members of have criticized the company for the abrupt change: “The decision to end LogMeIn Free is abrupt and a bit confusing. In an article for PC World Tony Bradley, Principal Analyst at Bradley Strategy Group states:

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This product will be a paid-only offering, and it will offer what we believe to be the best premium desktop, cloud and mobile access experience available on the market today.”Ĭurrent users of the service will receive an email and a screen message the next time that they log in informing them that they have a paltry seven days to upgrade to a premium account before access to their account is revoked. “We will be unifying our portfolio of free and premium remote access products into a single offering. “After 10 years, LogMeIn’s free remote access product, LogMeIn Free, is going away,” wrote LogMeIn’s Tara Haas.

#Logmein pro or team viewer free software#

Within the last week remote computer access software company LogMeIn have announced that they will be discontinuing their free remote access product – LogMeIn free – with immediate effect.