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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 724313" data-attributes="member: 158">Thing is, Ranger REG, most people have one of two conditions - more money free than time, or vice versa. (Not that any of us necessarily have huge amounts of either, but still we usually have more of one than we do the other.) If they go through with it, at a nominal fee of say $5.00 for 3 years, then I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd still do it at $3.00 for 1 year, because chances are that the LST converters will still work for it for a very long period of time.However, the longer they can keep backwards compatibility for LST files, the better they are at not segmenting their user base. If Microsoft required users to upgrade Word or Excel every single year, they wouldn't have half of the user base they do. As it is, Excel XP can still open an Excel 97 spreadsheet, and I believe the reverse is also true. If users could not open old data files with newer versions of programs, Microsoft would be bathed in class-action suits deeper than they could have dreamed, making their IE integration case look weak by comparison.</blockquote>