A: If you legitimately own a license (CD with serial key), you are entitled to install it on your machine. However, you still risk OS incompatibility. Consider migrating to a free alternative instead.

Power Geez 2009 is a keyboard utility and font management system developed by the Ethiopian-based company Geezsoft. It allows users to type Ethiopic characters using a standard English (QWERTY) keyboard. Unlike basic fonts, Power Geez included a sophisticated input method that mapped complex Ge'ez syllables to phonetic English equivalents.

For example, typing "s" would produce ሰ, "u" would produce ሱ, and so on. This made it wildly popular among students, translators, journalists, and clergy who needed to produce documents, emails, or websites in Amharic or Tigrinya.

A: Possibly, but not recommended. Compatibility mode may work, but many users report crashes. The driver model for keyboards changed after Windows 7, making Power Geez 2009 unstable.

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