Note: please keep to topic here, we  ( I ) only want to hear if your staying with Sonar, If your having problems with it start a thread there's still plenty of help. Thank you for your cooperation. 
 
 "I will do proper archiving of my projects (audio bounce, MIDI export, etc.) in the future, but you should do that anyway."
 
I have always been in the habit of saving my important projects as a MIDI file for back up. Midi files can be opened in any DAW. For me they are the most work I put into many songs. I can always re sing or re play my guitar. But my drums and keyboard parts are a lot of work and the glue that would be hard to re do. 
Between the midi file and the audio folder we have a good backup. 

In for the long haul!!!  Have seen the others, none compare.

I ain't goin' anywhere.  SPLAT is my jam. 

Count me in. Of course, I will use Sonar as long as possible despite of crashes and lack of some hardly needed improvement it is still undoubtedly one of the best DAW in this world! :)

Sonar god's -
Please allow one final Update so that my current version of Platinum will be up to date. I was just about to pay for the update when this all came down...
 
Please allow Sonar to keep running, as we purchase this as a lifetime product - I thought. There is just to much work to change over to another DAW...
Please!
dmc    
 

Keeping mine!
I still have so much to learn as of yet.
I can't deny that now when I see my Sonar Splash screen pop up,
that I cry just a little . . .
No, wait, I think I pee a little.
Yeah,
I pee a little. .    .   . need to get that looked at.

i'm staying until it no longer works.  hopefully Sonar outlives me.

I'll be running SONAR until it no longer operates on my computer.
 
Now if I can just down grade to Win7...

I'm not going anywhere..
Been using Sonar (for myself) since Sonar3.
Was using it in small studios since Cakewalk Pro9.
All the others seemed frail in comparison.
Besides, SPLAT on Windows 7 64 is just fine.

Oh yeah, I'm sticking with Sonar until I am forced to change. I mean, why would I run out and spend $$ on a new DAW, struggle through the learning curve, spend time finding work-arounds with the new DAW to do things I can do easily in Sonar, and spend hours & hours converting old projects to whatever format the new DAW needs to open them?
 
I ran 8.5 on an XP machine until this last spring, and was still turning out good recordings. I only switched because of hardware issues that were beginning to plague the XP machine, and could finally justify the financial expenditure to the finance committee. (AKA my lovely wife.) So I figure that the few bugs that SPLAT currently has are not stopping me from making recordings now, and while I am really bummed about no new updates, fixes, etc, I see no reason to stop using a perfectly good tool. I still own hand tools from companies that have disappeared, and they all still serve me well. I realize that software is a little different, but I look at it the same way: why stop using something that works?
 
So yeah, I'm staying with Sonar, and will count on the forum members (wherever we all land on the 'net) for technical support & advice. Life is good. :-)