Adobe Mastersuite CS4 - Concerned About Moving To Windows 8.1

I have Adobe Mastersuite CS4 on Windows XP and it works just fine for my needs.    Since Microsoft has discontinued support of Windows XP I am moving to Windows 8.1.  Right now I simply don't have the money to upgrade my suite and from a functional point of view the one I have works just fine for my needs.   Do I need to do anything at all to continue using my software  on Windows 8.1?
Thanks in advance,
Ivan

It's untested and unsupported but give it a try and see.
If you have issues you can try running it in compatibility mode but at when
all is said and done, you're on your own.

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