The owners of Make the Cut have settled a lawsuit with Provo Craft and their software will no longer work on any cricut machines. Provo Craft is in the process of suing the owners of Sure Cuts a Lot as well. If you want to continue using your cricut machines with either of these programs, be sure not to update your cricut's firmware and in the case of Make the Cut, don't install newer versions of the software (same with Sure Cuts a Lot once they can't sell it anymore-I'm sure they'll settle-they can't afford to compete with Bank of America, which owns most of Provo Craft).