[Peter Blaise]

Calibre 5 works just fine in Windows 7 64 Pro for me.

Windows 8 is really just Windows 7 SP2, so it's silly to hard-code a resistance to installing Calibre 5 in Windows 7.

The easiest way for me to install Calibre 5 into Windows 7, by the way, was to borrow a Windows 10 POS Phone Operating System computer ( argh, but people ask me for support, so I see Windows 10 POS Phone Operating System computers occasionally ), and I can then install Calibre 5 into

[ C:\Program Files\Calibre5\ ]

on their Windows 10 POS Phone Operating System, then copy that directory to my Windows 7 machine, and viola, works a charm.

In case I need to revert, Calibre 4 is still there on my Windows 7 machine in

[ C:\Program Files\Calibre4\ ]

I absolutely LOVE Calibre, and I thank Kovid Goyal a million times a day for such a terrific unprecedented program.

But the attitude of "... I will fight for Microsoft's pushing of a POS Phone Operating System ..." is completely and totally averse to great independent ( did I say INDEPENDENT ? ) programming.

So, no, Kovid Goyal, there is absolutely nothing special about Calibre 5 that makes it unsupportable on Windows 7.

I suppose I can install Windows 10 on a thumb drive, install future Calibre updates there, then copy them back to Windows 7, and then toss Windows 10 back into a shoebox where it can do no harm.

Seriously, you believe in Windows POS Phone Operating Systems THAT MUCH to fight your own dedicated users over this?

Love you nonetheless, mon.
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