As research and evolution in the IT field goes on and on, relentlessly and quickly, every popular and successful program is updated to a new version at least every year but, very often, even every 2 or 3 months. I refer to programs such as ITunes, Msn Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Firefox, UTorrent, WinRar, Acrobat Reader, Skype and above all some download programs such as LimeWhire and BearShare whose new versions are almost paid.
There are some websites that keep track of all version changes of the various programs for Windows and Mac and allow you to download old programs, those that disappear from official sites.
Using old and previous versions of software could be useful if the new version is incompatible with your computer, if it goes wrong for unknown reasons or, simply, because you have an old PC with an outdated operating system.
It should be emphasized that using an outdated program could be dangerous in terms of security.
However, it is true that many software development houses, to relaunch their own product, even if it does not have significant security problems, update it by adding two or three new functions that are often useless.
So it happens that the new version is worse than the previous one because it is heavier on the computer or more limited in its use.
So if after an update it is believed that the old version was better, you can go to one of these websites for free download of the old program .
1) OldVersion is a website where programs can be found by following the category organization.
On the home page there is the entire list of programs divided into the categories Graphics, Security, Multimedia, Internet, File Sharing, utilities.
In general, since the site has been active since 2001, there should be nearly 3000 versions for the 200 programs listed, both for Windows and for Mac.
On the right column are the most popular ones, those whose old version is most sought after and you can see that in the head there is a program like BearShare because its new versions are terrible and MSN Messenger 7.5.
2) LastFreeware is a site specializing in listing the latest free versions of paid programs.
3) Old-Versions.net has a very simple interface with a large list of programs divided into categories.
On this site, in addition to the usual popular software, there are also previous versions of programs used at the server level by companies such as 3Com Daemon, Cisco TFTP Server, Norton Ghost, SolarWinds TFTP, Tera Term Pro.
Then there are those p2p programs that I had listed in another article, all available for download: Kazaa, Morpheus, WinMX, ShareAza and many others.
4) OldApps.com is similar and immediately presents the list of software always divided into categories.
From here you can, for example, download version 4.1 of Skype, Itunes 8.0, Firefox 2 and much more.
Finally, I want to say that installing old versions of programs that come out on the internet could be dangerous and could open doors to the outside that hackers can easily exploit.
However, if you want to recycle an old computer that does not stand up to the heavy news, then, the use of previous programs, could really be a great way to give it new life.
About old, remember the article on where to download old PC games for free .
