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Originally Posted by JWPearson
It is totally unreasonable to drop the ability to install or update Calibre under Windows XP. There are hundreds of thousands of XP users that are not goin g to upgrade Windows from XP because of having to do a total install of every application on the new Windows.
XP support from Microsoft may have ended but XP is still a very good OS and will continue to be used into the future.
The Calibre team should figure out why the new version fails and fix the problem rather than abandon many thousands of loyal users that have stayed with Calibre all these years.
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They HAVE: QT5
QT5 has moved on past what XP provides.
QT5 is needed to fix other problems that QT4 caused.
Kovid (rightly) decided not to limit Calibre to ancient OS limits.
It hurts. I have 4 XP machines. One is already out of the running because its AMD has no SSE2. The others have $$$ of software/hardware that does not transition/license movable to W7+
W7 is already years old . Not sure it make sense to just bump to that this late. The pain will just happen sooner.
W8 requires 2 more features that a P4 does not have (PAE, NX), that assumes the P4 model you have has SSE2.