In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, CounterRotatingProps wrote: Dear Loopy, Just a friendly rib here, but I think your Bytes are coming Loose :) The books posted were posted as examples of what the poster WOULD LIKE to see. Not a Parallax press release. > Parallax has to get a MS software license to properly install to Windows. Er, no. I stall my own stuff properly to all flavors of windows all the time - you don't need a license to do this. What you do have to pay for is the testing and certifications which *permit* you to use the MS 'certified' logo on your products, and, under the right circumstances, MS will host updates to your software via Windows Update. But none of that is required - worst thing is that you see an annoying pop-up on install that says it's not MS compliant and/or it might be "Unsafe" .... in other words, to quote from Star Trek TOS: "You are not of the Body" --- if you want your software to "be absorbed" into the Body of Bill (aka Landrew), then you shall pay. > And if M$ does support Windows 95 and 98, then Parallax cannot perpetually update it either. " That does not compute. " :tongue: - Howard [quote="Loopy Byteloose"] This really looks like a sneak preview of a major release with new books. Thanks Parallax!!!! The SXes are great and deserve fresh texts. I suspect a partial 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. [/quote] ---------- End of Message ---------- You can view the post on-line at: http://forums.parallax.com/forums/default.aspx?f=7&p=1&m=366767#m367218 Need assistance? Send an email to the Forum Administrator at forumadmin@parallax.com The Parallax Forums are powered by dotNetBB Forums, copyright 2002-2009 (http://www.dotNetBB.com)