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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Ok great, thank you. When you go to Kobo's site, it makes it sound like their software will on work on pc's that have Window 8 they even have a link to Microsoft so you can get it!
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I suspect you were looking at their reading app which comes in a Windows 8 version as well as iOS and Android. As far as I know, that is a Windows Metro app which will not run on Windows 7 or earlier. The Kobo desktop app is a different program which can read ebooks from Kobo's site but whose main use is transferring those ebooks to your ereader along with handling firmware updates, etc. for your Kobo ereader.
The current version (3.90) works on Windows Vista or higher as Kobo dropped support for Windows XP in that version. For those running Windows XP, version 3.80 is available from various places. Doing testing on a virtual machine, Kobo no longer offers to update 3.80 to 3.90 when running under Windows XP.
That being said, my personal preference is to use Calibre to manage the ebooks. Just works much nicer than the Kobo desktop app since the vast majority of my ebooks are sideloaded epubs.
Regards,
David