Thread: Kobo Desktop no longer available for Windows XP
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Old 12-30-2014, 10:06 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
And, unless the OP of this thread has changed course in the last few years, he's still using WordStar (of all things!) for writing.
Why shouldn't he use WordStar? His profession is writing and no doubt his familiarity with WordStar, alongside what must by now be a well muscle-memory, allows him to produce work far more quickly and efficiently with that word-processor than with any other. This may also explain why he has remained with XP because 32-bit XP is the last release of MS Windows that officially allows full-screen DOS sessions (it is possible to obtain full-screen DOS sessions with some installations of Win 7, but it requires a lot of effort and is not guaranteed to work).

So returning to the original question, why don't Kobo offer a download of the last release of XP compatible Desktop along with a notice that this release is no longer supported and that anyone using it uses it at their own risk? This should satisfy XP using customers.
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