We learn and rewrite things, we even come up with new programming languages, because over time using the previous version we learned what wasn’t working so well and what could be improved.Ĭompanies like Apple don’t have an evil agenda to drain the pockets of consumers with new software updates and forcing them to update. That has nothing to do with how companies would want it to be, it is a simple matter of technological development. The evolution of operating systems and consequently the software running on them is not meant to stop at something that worked at some point in time. Consequently, Microsoft gave up on it and today Microsoft begs its Internet Explorer users to switch to Edge, which they are currently basing on Google’s Chromium engine. Its old code was based on different technologies – a different age of technologies.

And these were not around when Internet Explorer was conceived.

Any website today, because any website today is using modern HTML4 and CSS3 standards. Whether they’re forced by their company to use it or by choice, they keep lamenting that nothing really works when they are visiting websites. There are still some people holding onto Microsoft Internet Explorer. That includes FontLab apps of course.Īll fonts that were made in that year still work today.īut not a single app that worked on the initial Mac OS X will work today, and most apps developed just 5-7 years ago or earlier will not work in the upcoming macOS. Mac OS X was released in the same year as Windows XP (2001).Īll apps that worked in Windows XP still work in Windows 10 today. As a company, if you've comissioned custom software for the Mac, maybe hired some external team that is now gone, or if you've licensed really expensive specialty software, in other words, if you're a professional - you're screwed with Apple. The Windows versions of FontLab Studio 5 and TypeTool 3 will likely continue working for many years, since Microsoft does not seem to be renoving support for 32-bit apps.Īpple has been known for the disregard for the developers, and for the investments made by their users, especially institutional users. The FLS5/TT3 codebase is the opposite of modern (we have to use Mac OS 10.6.8 to compile it). If a conversion to 64-bit were easy, we would have done it in 2011-2014 when we were moving FontLab Studio 5 and TypeTool from PowerPC (5.0.4, 3.0.x) to Intel (5.1, 3.1).

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