earlier versions of itunes

Thanks, problem solved

I have a program that I use that runs on Windows XP and earlier. It's my bread and butter and if I upgrade to Win7 or higher I need to pay about $24,000 for a new license. I also have a fancy network printer for which there are no drivers past XP.

Talking about security vulnerabilities, Win 8 and 10 have literally thousands of vulnerabilities and MS is going to spend the next 10 years plugging the holes.

XP on the other hand has most of its vulnerabilities plugged which is why it's so stable. It also has compatibility support right back to DOS.

XP's (any windows for that matter) security vulnerabilities are best plugged buy putting a network appliance that doesn't run windows of any flavour in between your local network and the web and not visiting malicious sites. McAfee's SiteAdvisor is good for preventing the latter.

Anyhow, thanks for your assistance though.

-- Max

What's especially sad about it is that the program actually doesn't need XP to run, it's only that the installer checks the OS and doesn't know anything past XP so won't progress. When I write SW I always avoid putting anything in the registry and save all program files relative to the install root directory. That means you can simply zip the installation to a zip file and do and extract on any machine you want. Given what 99% of programs do I don't understand why more don't do that.

It's an interesting concept, there are apparently 250 million WinXP users out there, why would Apple want to avoid that many potential sales? I'm not normally into conspiracies but it sound like MS is in there.