Thread: If We Use XP ... Is There Any Hope?
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Old 09-02-2014, 12:05 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by MSWallack View Post
For those of us who (for one stupid reason or another...) are forced to continue using WinXP (at least for the foreseeable future), is there any hope that new versions of Calibre will be compatible or are we suck with 1.48 (which, I'll note, works great)?

(And yes, I do realize that I should probably just shoot myself instead of continuing to use WinXP...)
NO chance unless the QT5 developers put effort into XP compatibility (why would they? New HW is coming out that needs support).

LINUX (dual boot to XP when you infrequently need that old program/feature?)!
If you run one of the Leaner Distros, Old HW will FLY with standard XP resources
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