Sometimes, the individuals and/or companies that make software also happen to make stupid decisions. Those stupid decisions can result in your favorite piece of freeware/shareware/whateverware becoming bloated, buggy or both. That’s why it’s always been great to have a site like OldVersion.com around so you can download and install the version of your favorite piece of software when it was at its peak.
Well, cnet at some point seems to have caught onto the fact that users find this particular option to be, more often than you’d think, absolutely invaluable. That’s why they decided to implement this particular type of functionality into their own downloads site: Download.com. For instance, Apple just released iTunes 8 today but, if you think it’s still too disgustingly bloated not as great as you might have hoped, you can go all the way back to iTunes v4.2 (for Windows, v1.1 for Mac OS) and install it, instead.
Now, I’m not entirely sure when download.com began offering this (I honestly can’t tell you the last time I visited their over-crowded, ad-ridden site) but, if you’re a frequent cnet user, you might rather enjoy this feature. If you’re like me, however, and tend to stay away from cnet-related sites at all costs, then just bookmark oldversion.com and be done with it.
