To be fair, I think it's a reasonable expectation for the vendor to stop support of an obsoleted product once it's been announced, especially a v4 unit. Michael did provide ample notice of this change when it occurred. It would have been nice if he had a link for downloading the old Configurator version with caveats about old Microsoft libraries required for support. But I think his election not to do this is not unreasonable for the previous point cited.

One consideration which would be nice to think about is what happens if or when all of these products are no longer supported. Is the design of the software such that it will still function properly if the online dependencies no longer exist for some reason? Having a standalone configuration is nice.

Michael's hardware is rock solid and very stable. Kudos to Lintronic for developing something that works really well.

stefan wrote:

I had a look into my Lintronic sw "collection", but the oldest sw is from 2009, and it is already HW5, sorry.

So, no help from me, I`m afraid.

BTW, I agree with Ralf.

And Michaels support is fantastic.

Stefan

Hi Stefan, if you still have the software for HW5 I am interested. I am still looking for this version.

Would you please send me a pm?

Thanks.

Stefan

@kallasr, i didn't buy an old product. This is one I bought full price at the time - and have bought a v6 version since. 

I  wasn't asking for support either - just the archived software. Any business worth its salt would have archives - specially if (as you say) we were 'warned' about the impending removal of support for the hardware. I reall objected to his way of communication to me  

Either way, I suspect he has his supporters here - but that makes no difference to me in that I will never support his company by buying any more products , specially now as you can practically build a similar device much cheaply.

frog wrote:

I wasn't asking for support either - just the archived software.

That is one example of what I call support...

Sorry for you, that you didn't keep of copy of the software you had before.
Maybe someone on this forum will be able to provide to you.

Ralf

I've recently tried to use a couple of old Version 4 devices which have been lying unused for 7 or 8 years.

They always worked fine before and I simply want to reconfigure them for a couple of new devices I now own.

I contacted Lintronic, apparently there is new software but it doesnt work with the old units.

Apparently they no longer supply and support copies of the old software - this is a shame as they are aligned to the B&O brand which relies heavily on long term support of older systems.

Anyhow - I found an old copy of the config software but it doesnt seem to run on a wondows 7 pc.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Regards

Alan

Hi,

you can try the Micosoft VirtualBox with an official Windows XP Image:

Download and Description from Microsoft

At least a try worth :)