Windows Essentials 2012 will reach end of support on January 10th 2017

Kari said:

That was my main concern, too, although I have found a pretty good alternative for Movie Maker: Shotcut, open source and completely free.

You can't open MSWMM files with it though. I installed it, but it would not open my old Movie Maker projects. I've tried everything to open my old project files, but nothing works. All the downloads to Movie Maker don't work. The most up to date version I found was Windows Move Maker 6, but when I open the program, I get an error.