Why does shiny new Viewer 3 install with an icon that says "viewer 2" and in the old v2 folder?

[Dalek Hax]

Why does shiny new official Viewer 3 install with an icon that says "Viewer 2" and in the old v2 folder? (e.g. "C:\Program Files (x86)\SecondLifeViewer2\SecondLife.exe" ). Is this an indication of the careful debugging that's being going on during the year lost to mesh? Or is it just Linden's way of telling us, "same sh1t, different number"?

[Ansariel Hiller]

Because it is Viewer 2. There's nothing new nor shiny in it!

[Rolig Loon]

/me checks her Magic Eight Ball ..... "You may rely on it."

[Deej Kasshiki]

The Lab is playing fast and loose with their version numbering. "Viewer 3.0" is just 2.8x with mesh viewing/uploading built in. For some reason they completely skipped 2.9.

I'm guessing (cynical fennec that I am) that the marketing types figured that it they slapped a new name on v2 it would overcome the bad reputation... :smileywink:

[Ceera Murakami]

Because Viewer 3 is just Viewer 2 with a shiny Mesh coat of paint?

Mostly because V3 is 99% still V2, right down to the crappy user interface. Calling it V3 is just PR, to herald the official First Coming of Mesh, which actually came with some releases of Viewer 2.8.

[Peewee Musytari]

Rebranding, so that when LL hears people saying how much they hate V2 they can pretend that they are not talking about the current viewer & newbies will think, whew I am glad I got V3.