You left out an important statement from the source that referenced the business oriented Enterprise version become subscription based. Here is that statement "According to a Microsoft spokeswoman, the subscription deal is not in any way related to Microsoft's consumer offering."
Hoping that Legacy (and future versions of Legacy) would continue to work on earlier versions of Windows is probably asking a bit too much. All software applications will evolve with the current offerings of available operating systems. Technology bites us all in the butt sooner or later. For example, I had many reels of 8mm video film which I thought I was doing the right thing in converting them to VHS tapes because 8mm projectors were going the way of high-buckled shoes. Well, have you tried to purchase a VHS tape player lately? In the scenario you mention (about inheriting an old laptop), such technological changes would not happen overnight to prevent users from upgrading. There are many years of change involved during which the data can be made available on more modern devices. All those people that purchased Atari computers or the original Mac computers no longer have any software applications to run, display, or manipulate any of the data that they may have accumulated. But they had years to see the changes coming and in doing so, updated their own devices to handle just what is available to the consumer today. The current version of Legacy will run on older versions of Windows back to Win98, NT, and 2000. But apparently it will not run on Win95 (never tried it myself but I find it strange that it runs on 98 but not 95). And it mostly definitely will not run on Win3.1. By the way , the "free" upgrade to Win10 expires July 29th. Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Hayes Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 9:52 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Register for Webinar Friday - Windows 10 Survival Guide for Genealogists by Thomas MacEntee On 22 Jul 2016 at 14:05, Brian Lightfoot wrote: > I think unfounded statements like "I have heard" need to be taken with > a grain of salt. Unless it can be substantiated and documented, then > it´s all just another rumor on the Internet. Not just a rumour -- it has already been announced that the Enterprise version of Win 10 will cosdt US$ 7.00 per seat per month. I suspect that Microsoft would not announce such a thing for the Home editiion before the last date to upgrade for "free". > However, many large software houses have already switched to a > subscription based sales. Adobe is one major example. Try buying a > "stand-alone" version of Photoshop anymore. You are forced to "rent" it on a monthly or yearly basis. > Yet, nobody complains about that. Within the next decade it would not > surprise me at all if most software programs end up being subscription > based...be haps even Legacy Family Tree. So while you think you can > switch to an open source OS like Linux, you may be forced to use > subscription based applications. Of course, this all supposes that the > Internet doesn´t crash and burn in the next decade. There is a difference between spps and an operating system. Legacy is an app. An operating system that depends on subscriptions is, as I said, nothing more than ransomware and evil. It would make huge amounts of historical informatiion inaccessible. Picture this scenario (and you can imagine many others) -- your maiden aunt dies, and you inherit her laptop. She has kept, not only her genealogy, but otherr family documents -- her memoirs and diaries, corresondence etc on her computer. But it all becomes inaccessible. And that could be multiblies millions of times throughout the world. And what would happen if Microsoft went bankrupt? That is why I hope Legacy will continue to work on earlier versions of Windows. -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
