I wouldn't worry too much. They're pretty good at it now. This was back in the early 2000s. I think it ran on Vista ,XP, then Win7 and then quit working with windows8 came out and Viking just abandoned it. I was so ticked off. By the time I bought it windows 7 was already out. Oh well.
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Ya. I wish they'd get on the ball and upgrade these things.
I had to throw away an embroidery machine, EMBROIDERY sewing machine ($$$$) because it was no long compatible with the new operating systems. I was ticked.
Those are GREAT!
I have a love, hate, hate relationship with mine. It wants a computer/tablet to run from, which I don't have. I have chromebooks, and it doesn't work well at all from the phone. DH and DS have large operating systems, but I'm not clogging them up with art. LOL.