That would depend on how you look at it. None of us know what Microsoft has planned next. And you can bet that is it broke their own stuff, they plan on breaking even more.

IE11 was pushed thru as a standard update, which means that future updates will inevitably require it to be installed. Presently it is just a matter of unistalling it, that wont be the case when updates require it. (There is a date for this, but I don't remember where or what it is. It will be a mandatory update.)

Going out on a limb here, this is going to be far worse than the launch of IE10 that only required a few simple fixes to NET and a few other things. IE11 adds a lot more to the plate.

I did not include all of the things that are broken because of IE11, but rest assured that the list is staggering and wont get any smaller. There are some programs that will get updated simply because the fix is simple. Others are simply not going to be updated because of end of support of things developers have no control over.

Poser 8 was released in 2009 and most users had XP or Vista on the MS side. Windows 7 was available at the time, for about a month. Poser 8 was designed to run under 32bit.

How many years should SM support something? Hmm... Here is your answer., err... MS's answer..

When was the last time you saw a Windows Update on an XP64 Pro machine? XP32 still gets some, till April 8th, 2014. Then XP (32 and 64) is done as far as MS is concerned.... Vista get the axe in 2017, possible sooner by the 2 year rule...

There is a bunch of stuff that MS will axe in 2015 as well, so this will happen all over again next year as well..... Support for all sorts of MS stuff will disappear....

The major update for Poser 8, is Poser 9, then Poser 10, etc. Chances are good that developement for the next version has already been penned out on paper. Supporting 3 versions back is the most you see from just about every company when it comes to software. And if support of the op system that it was designed for dies so does the program support, doesn't matter how many versions there are.

April 8th is not that far away.

XP and 32 bit support is dead, get used to it. The same thing is going to happen to just about every other 32 program coded for xp out there as well.

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