User blog comment:Lost Labyrinth/The Sims Wiki News - 3rd April 2014/@comment-4568327-20140402234852/@comment-4568327-20140404001717

Not really. Soon, The Sims 2 might be too obsolete to run on modern operating systems. Windows 8 already has some difficulties running TS2 (though a thread at MTS was made that thankfully provided the solution). Not sure if SimPE runs on Windows 8. We'll just need to pray and hope that some interested collector or archive company will take The Sims 2, protect it, and several years in the future, figure out how to make it work and bring joy to the world again - I mean, extreme nostalgia.