Joe, if I had to get Windows 8, could I still use my Noteworthy Composer? Does it handle MIDI files? Download them, save them, play them?

I ask because a tech at my computer shop told me smugly that Microsoft is going to stop supporting Windows. He seemed to get a kind of malicious glee from the idea ("Who does she think she is, being different from us mp3 lovers?") so I don't know whom to believe.

I'm still using XP, but in 2014, they say, Microsoft won't be updating it against threats.