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Okay, so I have had Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 for a long time and it worked beautifully until I installed Windows 7. Now it is behaving very strangely. I went onto a Dreamweaver forum, now owned by Adobe, and asked questions about why certain things were not working in Dreamweaver. They all said “Get a later version” and “It’s a wonder it has worked for this long”. Well, I’m not rich, so what now. I’ll have to learn HTML and XHTML afterall. Maybe I’ll download NVU, an open source program said to be like Dreamweaver.

A lot of programs that I have will not be compatible with Windows 7. Apparently, if your Windows 7 is 64 bit, then nothing much will be compatible, but the 32 bit version may be nicer to you. To find out whether your version of Windows 7 is 32 bit  or 64 bit go to Start>Control Panel>System Security>System

I know most items these days are made to be obsolescent in a couple of years, but I don’t think this was the case with computer programs which used to be okay in their time. The makers would not have been aware that computers and Bill Gates would have such amazing operating systems in the future. I mean Windows 7 is better than the security ridden XP OS.

So what do you do as a home programmer in the way of software which becomes outdated?