Adobe and Vista

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Old news now (relatively, at least, in a digital world).

While it seems harsh, the fact is that most software manufacturers don't
update existing software releases for compatibility with a new OS. Most
force users to upgrade to a new, compliant version. Good for their sales you
know, and Adobe is not alone in this.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Hi Rick

In my opinion the only thing wrong with adopting this attitude, is that a
user may have purchased a product let's say late 2006 for their existing the
machine, that machine then ceases to work so they purchase a new machine
with Vista and then their expensive software doesn't work. Let's face it
everyone knows that Vista had along beta, surely the manufacturers should
have got their acts together and made compatible software, even if they did
not want to advertise as such before the official launch.

Instead many people are happy to blame MS, which I consider is totally
unfair MS produce the operating system only and it is up to the 3rd Party
manuafacturers to keep up and resolve any issues, especially with late
purchased product or hardware.

These are only my opinions, do you disagree Rick?

Best Regards
Stuart
 
Stuart said:
Hi Rick

In my opinion the only thing wrong with adopting this attitude, is that a
user may have purchased a product let's say late 2006 for their existing
the machine, that machine then ceases to work so they purchase a new
machine with Vista and then their expensive software doesn't work. Let's
face it everyone knows that Vista had along beta, surely the manufacturers
should have got their acts together and made compatible software, even if
they did not want to advertise as such before the official launch.

Instead many people are happy to blame MS, which I consider is totally
unfair MS produce the operating system only and it is up to the 3rd Party
manuafacturers to keep up and resolve any issues, especially with late
purchased product or hardware.
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While I personally do partially agree with the 3rd party part, I also have
to say that MS totally threw compatibility out the window on this one. I
mean, it's quite obvious they didn't really give a crap about any
significant degree of compatibility.

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Stephan
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Stephan Rose said:
While I personally do partially agree with the 3rd party part, I also have
to say that MS totally threw compatibility out the window on this one. I
mean, it's quite obvious they didn't really give a crap about any
significant degree of compatibility.
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Agreed. MS created a software they thought would make everyone upgrade
because it has all this new stuff and it bites them in the butt. I love it.
MS failed to realized that if people wanted to start over they may look at
alternatives from other vendors.
 
just said:
Agreed. MS created a software they thought would make everyone upgrade
because it has all this new stuff and it bites them in the butt. I love
it. MS failed to realized that if people wanted to start over they may
look at alternatives from other vendors.
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Well and another thing is this. Aside from the eye-candy and maybe that
search feature and a few other non-technical things...

The majority of new features or improvements are so technical that the
average user doesn't even know what it is or would possibly ever understand
it.

Users don't care that Vista has a new TCP/IP stack, they don't even know
what one is! Same goes for memory management and whatever else all. None of
those things are even important to the average user as they wouldn't have a
clue what it even means!

The only thing that is important to the average user is that their software
works, their peripherals work and that they can do with their computer what
they want to.

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Stephan
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MS isn't completely to blame, to be fair, the Vista Betas have been publicly
out for a LONG time. Adobe is traditionally slow with updates and
patches.....they still can't run the newest Acrobat 8 reliably in a 64 bit
OS environment, and that OS technology has been around for over two years.

As a matter of fact, as a graphics artist, some Adobe products (AI CS2 and
Acrobat 8) are the only ones I have issues with using Vista 64, CorelDraw
X3, Autodesk Autocad 2006, and Soldworks have all updated their software to
run in Vista without a hitch.
 
Bob said:
MS isn't completely to blame, to be fair, the Vista Betas have been
publicly out for a LONG time. Adobe is traditionally slow with updates and
patches.....they still can't run the newest Acrobat 8 reliably in a 64 bit
OS environment, and that OS technology has been around for over two years.

As a matter of fact, as a graphics artist, some Adobe products (AI CS2 and
Acrobat 8) are the only ones I have issues with using Vista 64, CorelDraw
X3, Autodesk Autocad 2006, and Soldworks have all updated their software
to run in Vista without a hitch.
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True enough they could have done better.

FYI, Adobe software working OK on my machine is PS Elements 2.0, CS1, CS2
and Lightroom, in addition to Adobe Reader 7.
 
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