New program versions - such as those cited by Gerry - that have been released over the past few years have been deliberately designed to take all of these issues into account, so few - if any - problems will ever occur. It's blatantly unfair to compare such new program versions with FSX (disk edition).

 

The copyright notices on my   Boland C++ Builder, and on Microsoft Office 2000 are all dated 1999, when i replaced by PC..  I repaced my 1999 Adobe Photohop 5.5 with Photoshop CS in the last couple of years.

Gotta love it when payware developers still tell you to install Win 7 instead or "go fish" on the internet ("how to disable UAC is everywhere" and then "Win 8 has too many steps to explain here").