Dear Sophos I'm very sorry...

I'll be very surprised if the reason is anything other than them either selling the product, or that the product is locked in some sort of litigation.

What other reason do companies ever have, aside from being held ransom, to not talk about the extremely obvious?

- in this case, the inability to buy and activate software licenses.

I have been a user of Sandboxie since I found in version 2.0 and have loved it and yes, I have as many of my clients using it as I can convince them to.
I have seen it stop Ransomware sold in it it's tacks 
The community that is part of this forum only want the product to be better, and allow us to future influence other people to use it.
I myself have a issue that I presented to SOPHOS and just got fluffed off, I have to come up with a work around and I did. 
I like this product and I want as many people as I can to like the product, but there needs to be some better than the Gray area that I see now
I check the SBIE Beta Version every day to see if anything has changed and it has not. All I do see is the same complaints issued over and over.
Please be more transparent and you will get more of my support.
Bill e. Barrett 

Tick, tick, tick...

[:@] It's Wednesday. Not even a sorry. Pathetic!

I am sorry, and we are sorry.  We are working on this behind the scenes and are close to the announcement.  As I've stated before the server issue was the initial problem, but the causes for the delay are non-technical.  

Thank you, apology accepted.  Please keep us updated.

Why did you make this forum private? I used to read it without having to log in, but now I have to log in just to read it. This is ridiculous. Not that I really believe anymore there's any hope for Sandboxie seeing how you're treating your customers, including myself. Right now I'm just curious to see how Sandboxie is going to die, do you really want to make that hard too? I love drama, let me have some fun.

At this point the only reason I can think why you'd not publicly tell Sandboxie is discontinued might be because people have active licenses and you don't want to refund the users who just bought a license or avoid legal actions from those users. But this is just my theory. Like I said, I love drama.

I have a hunch what is going on and I don't think "discontinued" is it (although who knows).

Whatever the explanation, I am shocked at how poorly it was handled by a company of this size that should have far better expertise in handling this sort of thing (or any sort of thing for that matter).  Especially if it is what I think it is.

I don't want to say any more since I'm hoping for the best.

"I don't want to say any more since I'm hoping for the best."

Such a tease!

I found this link in another thread which I didn't read before.

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/lp/invincea.aspx

My guess wasn't that wrong then. I don't think they'd treat Sandboxie differently. If they were to sell it, who'd actually buy an old piece of software like Sandboxie? With all the Windows updates at this point is worth writing it from scratch probably. And I don't know if the brand name has any value.

Ok, this is has gotten ridiculous - and your post is a flat out lie.  There was no making the forum private.  I had to log in just to be able to reply, yet I read it just fine and was NOT a private forum.  Matter of fact, I've been following this afterbirth of a post for weeks without logging in to read the abomination.

The entitlement is beyond out of control with some of you about this product, which was not a surprise that this was an 'as-is' software to begin with, yet you are putting it in a production environment?  That's your stupid mistake.  Now you can live with it.

The original poster - if they are a decision maker for that big of a company - I feel sorry for your company, and you should be ashamed for how badly your post presents yourself.  Grammatical errors, spelling is horrible, no absolute thought at all about the product, it was just a rush to hurry up and bash Sophos.  I can't think of one single person who would represent themselves like that, if you do in fact actually speak the truth about what you do.  It's no wonder you left your company name out of things. 

By the way, I have also bashed on Sophos about some of the really dumb decisions and things that have happened, and by no means a 'fanboi' for the company but you people really take it to another level.

Amodin said:

your post is a flat out lie.  There was no making the forum private.  I had to log in just to be able to reply, yet I read it just fine

Oh, that's a good news. I tested and you're correct, the forum is not private ANYMORE. How you give people no benefit of the doubt is ridiculous instead. Why would I have to lie about something everyone who's reading can check easily?

Amodin said:

The original poster [...] Grammatical errors, spelling is horrible

We've come to this now? Since when that makes someone's point less valid?

Stop being a shill. Insulting and trying to discredit people won't change anything. People are mad for many reasons. Personally I'm not mad if they discontinue the Sandboxie, I don't expect a company to support a product forever. But I don't like their lack of transparency. I'm paying for the software and I expect updates. If they're not going to update it anymore, they have to say it. Sandboxie has builtin support for hundreds of programs, but now they officially provide support only for literally a handful of programs, that's something not easy to accept for me either.

Amodin said:

your post is a flat out lie.  There was no making the forum private.  I had to log in just to be able to reply, yet I read it just fine

Oh, that's a good news. I tested and you're correct, the forum is not private ANYMORE. How you give people no benefit of the doubt is ridiculous instead. Why would I have to lie about something everyone who's reading can check easily?

Amodin said:

The original poster [...] Grammatical errors, spelling is horrible

We've come to this now? Since when that makes someone's point less valid?

Stop being a shill. Insulting and trying to discredit people won't change anything. People are mad for many reasons. Personally I'm not mad if they discontinue the Sandboxie, I don't expect a company to support a product forever. But I don't like their lack of transparency. I'm paying for the software and I expect updates. If they're not going to update it anymore, they have to say it. Sandboxie has builtin support for hundreds of programs, but now they officially provide support only for literally a handful of programs, that's something not easy to accept for me either.