RootsMagic

How many have been taken in by the RootsMagic 8 scam/vaporware? I was looking to upgarde my genealogy software so I bought into the lie that RootsMagic 8 would be released "soon" and buying version 7 would include the upcoming release. These people have been selling their v. 7 with a free license for a non-existant v. 8 for well over a year now promising a free upgrade "when available". They certainly took me for $30, and a year and a half later the promised upgrade is still just a rumor.

Don't bother if you want to load it it on a MAC. Total garbage, crashes and freezes up constantly. They're own support admitted the MAC version had known bugs but they sell it anyway. Criminal

The development timeline, poor performance and recent lack of updates betray a failed business plan. In an attempt to capture a larger share of the Mac market by updating a successful product the company has bit off more than it can chew.
It appears that Rootsmagic is little more than a garage operation with only 3 identifiable employees - far too few to support an effort of this magnitude. This was evident when they failed to appear at RootsTech - a premier marquee event for all genealogical software.
Their pricing history on previous versions (too low) has failed to accumulate sufficient cash to hire the manpower necessary to support this update. This has resulted in a delayed and disastrous product introduction which was partly rescued by a rapid series of updates. Unfortunately, the updates have slowed to a crawl and customer frustration has mounted. Its not clear that they can reverse this death spiral without a cash infusion to hire the required programmers.
Don't be surprised if Rootsmagic changes hands or, worse, ceases to exist.

RM7 was great bnut RM8 is just garbage. Freezes all the tiem on the simplest of tasks and has to be killed in task manager or by rebooting. DO NOT BUY!

I had never even heard of Roots Magic before they charged my debit card. Nothing but thieves. Trying to get a refund.