I bought the 440 a year a go it was horrible to get the program on my Vista,it works great on the XP but I finally got it on, I loved the embroidery and the sewing , BUT if I did not have a computer to hook it up to I would be in trouble because you have to hook up to a computer, for the embroidery part that costs extra any way I traded it in for the new 830 for a lot more money, BUT all of the hoops, the attachments and the program work on it , :thumbup: Go for it