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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.
How ironic that the rest of the world requests PC's with Windows every chance they get (A.K.A. when they buy a computer), isn't it?
How ironic that the rest of the world requests PC's with Windows every chance they get (A.K.A. when they buy a computer), isn't it?
Get a few plugins and a few more developers in on it, and GIMP has the potential to replace Photoshop entirely for upwards of 90% of the market. I figure it can replace PS in about 50% now... I bet Adobe would seriously pay attention to their customer base if 50% of 'em simply walked away, no?
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equivalent Mac.
However, this is mainly true for the entry-level systems, which
are not typically optimal for design. For high-end design work,
the argument falls away a bit:
High end quad-core Xeon-based machines are available from
both Apple (the Mac Pro) and Dell (the Dell Precision 490). The
prices are not only on a par from both companies, but often in
favor of Apple when you take a typical designer's configuration.
Add the generally better productivity that designers report when
using a Mac, plus the time (equals money) spent maintaining
and virus-scanning the Windows PC and the question is really,
just how much are you saving?
native support for Intel Macs - they run under Rosetta emulation
mode. All designers using intel Macs have been waiting (up to a
year now) for CS3 so they can have a native product.
The effect is that CS2 runs much slower on intel Macs. For
instance, at work CS1 on intel Core Duo iMac 1.87Mhz (2GB ram)
runs slightly slower that CS2 on my powerbook G4 1.67Mhz
(1GB ram)
So just as CS3 will be required for Vista, CS3 is required for intel
Macs. The Mac users have had it much harder, at least you can
actually buy vista.
for some time. If anything the Mac's advantages have been ignored
over the years to keep the Mac & Windows versions on par.
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.
I don't understand why anyone would want to run Vista in a production environment anyway.
- 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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