March 21, 2007 12:53 PM PDT
Adobe to CS2 users: Want Vista? Upgrade
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The company released a document (PDF) earlier this month describing its operating systems support plans.
Running Creative Suite 2.0 on Windows Vista is "not recommended" and it will not update those products for Vista, Adobe said.
"While some of its components, including Adobe InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2 and Photoshop CS2, install and run under Windows Vista with only minor known issues, other components such as Acrobat 7.0 Professional do not support Windows Vista," according to the statement.
The company said that it is not aware of any major problems for people who want to run Creative Suite 2.3 on Vista.
Adobe is scheduled to launch Creative Suite 3 on Tuesday in New York. Company executives say it's the biggest product launch in Adobe's history.
Creative Suite 3 was designed to run on 32-bit versions of Windows Vista--Home Premium, Business, Enterprise and Ultimate. The suite will also run on Macs.
In a recent interview with CNET News.com, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said Creative Suite 3 will not fully take advantage of the graphics capabilities in Vista, in part because of the uncertainty of Vista's shipping date.
"Another reason is, how many customers are really on Vista in the installed base, and is it worth the work, especially in the creative customers? And we have no desire to really showcase Microsoft's technology," Chizen said.
Adobe said that it is still testing Vista compatibility for Photoshop Lightroom, the company's photo-management application made available for pre-order in late January. There is one known problem burning CDs and DVDs. The company said it will evaluate whether to do an update for Vista.
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Thats great, it really shows how much Adobe likes MS. Its not a big
deal though, there are only a handful of creatives that use MS, most
use Apple. With all of the companies I have worked for and
interviewed with I have only seen one that uses MS for their
designers computers and the only reason they did was because
they receive a grant from MS. However, the designers at that
company still request Macs every chance they get.
More telling is the fact they decided not to provide patches for their older products to make them work well on Vista. That's definitely a move to force upgrades because the reason the older products would have problems on Vista is they they're performing some actions that they shouldn't have been doing in the first place.
- Adobe, are they as bad and greedy as Microsoft?
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by AT Web Results
May 30, 2007 12:50 PM PDT
- Wow, I cannot believe the arrogance of the Adobe spokesman. First off I think we all spent thousandssssss of dollars with this company over the years. My production laptop went down recently so Idecided to buy a new laptop. I gave Vista a shot and I am growing to really like it. Now I am finding out that not only are they not going to release software patches for vista, they are not going to include my favorite and most used program (GoLive) into CS3 but there new product line is not going to make use of vistas environment. Do they relize that the screen resolution flickers and pauses for a second while premium downgrades itself to the basic graphic elements. that is not a vista problem that is Adobe not making there product compatible with the latest operating system available. Further more, I am not crazy about the way Windows controls things, but at least they support there products for more than 2 years (the lenght of time I have had CS2). At the end of summer when GOLIVE CS3 Is released I will buy that stand alone, because in my opinion it is an amazing product, my only regret is that Adobe purchased the company that originally launched it, it would probably be better and more compatible if a smaller company, that cared about all of there customers and values their business owned it. Since windows represent about 90% of the market place I have gotta beleive that a majority of adobes client base uses windows not mac. Not that i have anything against mac, I just do not have time to make the switch. But I will not invest my hard earned money into ADOBE.
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