In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, George Herzog wrote:

I suspect the rationale behind the so-called stealth release is that the older Windows OS are getting impossible to support. Parallax has to get a MS software license to properly install to Windows. And if M$ does support Windows 95 and 98, then Parallax cannot perpetually update it either.

I will install the new software and be thankful that I am not hanging onto an older OS. But I have friends that are die hards and I listen to their grumbles each and every day.  To avoid paying out perpetual updates, I have shifted to a dual boot Linux/Windows setup and I keep my Linux up-to-date for free. I also use one of the top 3 major Linux distributions to avoid issues caused by a lack of resources.

Each to his own, but hanging on to old software is a harder way to go.

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