I have the Basic Embird with the Iconizer ad-on (shows a pic of your design) and the Font Engine ad-on (to make your own alphabets and monograms using FTT fonts) and some Embirds alphabets that you can make any size you want. I have Windows XP on my computer which is about 5-6 years old. I don't have any problems using it on my computer. I would just try out the Embird basic and Iconizer first, you can always get the others separately and as you need or want them. There is also a yahoo group that you can join and get loads of help and info on all of Embirds software. It is called AbsolutelyEmbird .