Adobe apps and MS Vista

[Andrew B.]

An InformationWeek article talks about Adobe's plan to not patch existing products so they work with Vista. Instead, customers will have to upgrade to new Adobe products. The article includes examples of Adobe/Vista problems.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=198001898

[ktinkel]

Originally Posted by Andrew B.

An InformationWeek article talks about Adobe's plan to not patch existing products so they work with Vista. Instead, customers will have to upgrade to new Adobe products. The article includes examples of Adobe/Vista problems.

Wow!

They will have a patch for Acrobat.

[Bo Aakerstrom]

So because Adobe and Microsoft doesn't like each other very much, Adobe expects their own customers to fork out even more money than they already have!?

I'm quite sure that there are better ways to keep customers.

[Michael Rowley]

Bo:

Adobe expects their own customers to fork out even more money than they already have!

In fairness to Adobe, CS3 is expected soon, isn't it? And Acrobat 8, only just released, might have been expected to be suitable for Vista, but Adobe is patching it (some time). But most people are carrying on with Windows XP, including those ordering new computers, until drivers & programs are ready for Vista.

[Shane Stanley]

Originally Posted by Bo Aakerstrom

So because Adobe and Microsoft doesn't like each other very much, Adobe expects their own customers to fork out even more money than they already have!?

I don't think that's the explanation. Apple's OS X 10.5 is just around the corner, and I doubt that we'll see any serious patching for CS2 to run under that, either.

Shane

[ktinkel]

Originally Posted by Bo Aakerstrom

So because Adobe and Microsoft doesn't like each other very much, Adobe expects their own customers to fork out even more money than they already have!?

I'm quite sure that there are better ways to keep customers.

As my mother used to say, it takes two to make a fight — if that is what this is. Not sure all the blame rests on either set of shoulders.

(But it does sound as if they believe they could afford to lose a lot of Windows customers for the CS apps.)

[Shane Stanley]

Originally Posted by ktinkel

(But it does sound as if they believe they could afford to lose a lot of Windows customers for the CS apps.)

Do you think so? How many people are going to fork out for an upgrade to Vista but baulk at upgrading to CS3?

It's a bit like expecting CS2 to run at native speeds on Intel Macs -- the solution is to upgrade. Similar thing happened with OS X.

I suspect there'll be a fair bit of angst until CS3 ships, then it'll all just blow over.

Shane

[ktinkel]

Originally Posted by Shane Stanley

Do you think so? How many people are going to fork out for an upgrade to Vista but baulk at upgrading to CS3?

It's a bit like expecting CS2 to run at native speeds on Intel Macs -- the solution is to upgrade. Similar thing happened with OS X.

I suspect there'll be a fair bit of angst until CS3 ships, then it'll all just blow over.

Maybe. At this point, I understood that most of the Vista users got the new OS by buying a new computer.

Anyway, we shall see.

[Steve Rindsberg]

Originally Posted by ktinkel

Maybe. At this point, I understood that most of the Vista users got the new OS by buying a new computer.

Anyway, we shall see.

But wouldn't you guess that most OSX users got OSXed by buying a new computer as well?

I'd be most inclined to put whatever OS is most important to me on the physical machine and run any uncooperative but less important apps in a virtual machine under that.

[waiting for VMWare/Mac to appear]

[ktinkel]

Originally Posted by Steve Rindsberg

But wouldn't you guess that most OSX users got OSXed by buying a new computer as well?

I'd be most inclined to put whatever OS is most important to me on the physical machine and run any uncooperative but less important apps in a virtual machine under that.

[waiting for VMWare/Mac to appear]

Probably, as a lot of older machines weren’t really up to it. But the transition was pretty well timed, as some OS 9 machines could make do for a while — it wasn’t do or die.

What’s VMWare?