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In article 2015091314381064254-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom,
Savageduck wrote:

On 2015-09-13 20:21:21 +0000, Tony Cooper said:

On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 15:58:49 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Bill W
wrote:

And finally regarding upgrading from XP, I use lots of software -
mostly music and photo, and almost none of it will run on XP. And I
think I'm a typical user.

as i said in another post, software developers aren't supporting xp
anymore.

Is that more of a case of XP not supporting software developers now
that there are few XP units extant? No point in expending time and
energy for the small demand.

The reason many software developers are not supporting XP is much the
same reason developers no longer support OSX 10.6.8 "Snow Leopard"(SL),
the capability of new versions and revisions of their software would
have to be crippled if they were to maintain backward compatibility.
The newer OSs, for both Win and OSX provide opportunity for developing
new software features and performance improvements over the versions
written for the now unsupported OSs.
Why should any developer ignore new and advanced OSs to support an OS
put out to pasture by its parent company, when they need to move on?

Consider Adobe, many folks felt they were compeled to upgrade from XP
and SL when Adobe dropped support for the OSs abandoned by MS and
Apple, but if you wanted to run PS CS6 and later, or LR5 and LR CC you
had no option but to upgrade from XP, or SL and move on.

The funny thing (with SL) is that you can run CS6 on (from Adobes
archives) it but not the tool that Adobe offers to install it with! ;-P

Even today in the Mac world there are many who will not upgrade from
SL, or who run it in a seperate partition because there is a favorite
software which does not exist for the newer editions of OSX. Snow
Leopard has in many ways become Apple's XP.
http://www.computerworld.com/article...sers-still-use
-os-x-snow-leopard.html

The

same thing applies to much new software written for Mac today, they
never had SL editions and never will, I think of the decent PS
substitutes Pixelmator and Affinity Photo, but those are not multi
platform apps either, and can fully take advantage of current OSX
features.
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