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I'm not going to win with you and don't want to get into an argument. ' Are you serious? We are not talking about a 79p app here, we are talking about a programme that costs nearly £3000 each year!!! My version is not from the dark ages but just 3 years old.

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' Unfortunately, if we were to go back and spend Engineering resources updating versions from previous years, that funding would have to come from somewhere, so the price of each software license would go up. We make sure to post what versions are and are not compatible as soon as we are confident in our internal tests here. The only reason they stopped working was because the OS was updated which is at the discretion of each user. If the apple OS updates were mandatory I would agree, however the supported Apple OS versions still run Vectorworks 2014 just fine. Regardless of your choice to use Vectorworks or not, you will most likely encounter these issues while using anything created by a third party in the Mac ecosystem. In the future a quick check with us first, you can even call if you don't want to search, and we can give you a yay or nay quickly. I understand your frustration, but compatiblity issues with older applications (regardless of their developer) with new versions of macOS have existed for many, many years now and in addition to that, we make sure to post compatibility information as soon as we are aware of it. We do not active limit what older software can do on newer operating systems, compatibility problems like this come directly from the changes Apple makes, not us. Unfortunately, if we were to go back and spend Engineering resources updating versions from previous years, that funding would have to come from somewhere, so the price of each software license would go up. The only reason 2014 stopped working was because the OS was updated which is at the discretion of each user. I will for now use that and try and work a way that I will never EVER have to use Vectorworks again. I had to go through a long process of reverting to an older apple Sierra and luckily I had 2014 on backup. No warnings, no compassion, just money making.

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My version is three years old and cost me over £2500! and now because 'generally' you only update the last two version (one being the most current btw) then my version is unusable and my only option is to purchase the new update for another £2+k and hope it lasts until the next apple update. I have explained this to so many people, including two members of staff at Apple Support and think it is appalling! Even an iPhone 5 will still be able to receive new updates and WORK. I'm sorry but just saying 'we keep the last two versions compatible generally' is simply not good enough. It's all a matter of how the OS handles software going forward, some Mac version updates are less dramatic than others, but this one was a hard line for many older apps.

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For instance, you can still run Vectorworks 8 on Windows 10 in many cases, and even Windows XP was supported and could run the most recent version of Vectorworks up until 2016 or 2017 I believe.

On the Windows side, this is much less of an issue since Microsoft doesn't dramatically remove backwards compatibility and alter options to make older software obsolete as fast.

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We keep the last two versions compatible generally, normally reserving the last service pack for a given version for a very last Mac OS compatibility fix. Unfortunately Apple makes enough significant changes in their OS releases to make a lot of backwards compatibility impossible for versions that no longer receive updates.

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