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I cringed when we got this email since we use LogMeIn Pro at work.

For everyone else, I hope they don't butcher the free version like they did with LogMeIn.

As someone who has never used LogMeIn, could you explain what the problems are? I use LastPass pretty extensively (and was thinking of buying a subscription later this month), but have never used LogMeIn.

LogMeIn used to have a free product that they then took to Premium only. I used to use them extensively until then.

Now they also seem to be notorious for price hikes, although I have no first-hand experience. I'm a LastPass Premium subscriber and have enjoyed using it, but I'm worried about what the future holds now.

My beef with them was when we quit using the 'Pro' product. We were using a feature that let us do software updates and scripting, which was kind of pointless when we could do those things with Windows server or other solutions.

We then went down to the 'Central' version of LogMeIn, as it still provided remote access capabilities (which was all we wanted) and were able to save a bit of money. Well, two months later they billed us the full renewal price of the old product ($2499) and it took us 6 months of back and forth with them to refund that.

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