Family Tree Maker will be discontinued

[pfarrell]

Re: Family Tree Maker will be discontinued

Folks.... Ancestry said they will stop selling at the end of this month and stop supporting one year from then.

That does not equal the software will all of a sudden quit working. I'm willing to bet it will work in standalone mode until some future OS update renders it into legacy status.

For sure, there is still a Generations mailing list populated with Generations users (Generations was a Windows version of Reunion from sometime in the mid-1990s, that was killed in 2000 or so). There is no reason for software to stop working on existing hardware and software, potentially forever. Some changes are big, like the Mac OS to OX-X conversion, or the death of PowerPc as a part of OS-X.

I can foresee a day when the Intel X86 architecture dies off to something more modern like the ARM processors in iPhones, but that will be years and years from now.

[donworth]

Re: Family Tree Maker will be discontinued

I can foresee a day when the Intel X86 architecture dies off to something more modern like the ARM processors in iPhones, but that will be years and years from now.

I sure hope so! I like being able to run Windows native on my Mac in Bootcamp.