I don't know a lot about all the ends/outs of this, but I use Firefox with my Windows XP and yes, lots of the older embroidery software will only work with XP. Yep, "they" want you to upgrade everything every time a change is made. I still use the old Google toolbar and so far it hasn't disappeared. You can always do a "Restore" back to a time when the old Google toolbar worked and see if it will "remain". You shouldn't lose any actual data you've entered since then. Worth a try anyway.