Adobe rubberstamps (only) CS4 for Snow Leopard Adobe has announced that its Creative Suite 4 (CS4) has been tested and cleared for use on Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system. But it has no plans to test the compatibility of earlier versions. If you own CS3 or earlier, according to an Adobe FAQ (PDF), you're on your own. "Older versions of Adobe creative software were …
It's being reported *everywhere*. Set your clock back 2 years and you'll see that Adobe did this to Vista *and* Leopard (see http://www.adobe.com/support/products/pdfs/adobe_products_and_windows_vista.pdf and http://www.adobe.com/support/products/pdfs/leopardsupport.pdf for details, usual DANGER, PDF!!! warnings apply). Adobe do it with every new OS release. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the same for Windows 7. Adobe are greedy money grabbing shysters. The uptake of the frankly overpriced and lacklustre CS4 has been poor and they are using this as an excuse to screw more money out of it's unsuspecting customers. Both Microsoft and Apple get criticised for being greedy, but this lot really take the biscuit.
I'm sure it can't be so, not supporting recentish software on snow-leopard, despite it only being a cleaned up and very slightly tweaked version of leopard. I am sure they won't make any extra sales, and no IT mangers will take the opportunity to senior managers and say "got to upgrade now"
Oh, and I'm an onion
Pirates - cos that's what they arrr!
Same old, Same old....
So many versions to choose from in the past decade.
If Apple didn't change their OS and Hardware manufacturers so often business could adapt much easier.
9.2 in 1999
10.0 in 2001
10.1 in Late 2001/2002
10.2 (Jaguar) in 2003
10.3 (Panther) in 2004
10.4 (Tiger) in 2006
10.5 (Leopard) in 2007/2008
10.6 (Snow Leopard) in 2009
Don't get me wrong, I like Mac's and the more recent OS BUT trying to keep up with Motorolla (G3, G4), IBM (G5), and now Intel Mac's. With eight major OS releases (and their sometimes not so great patches (10.2.7 which broke Firewire Drives) makes it terribly expensive to buy the new OS, discover it won't run on my 2 year old hardware--buy new hardware to find that something like Adobe or Quark won't run on either new hardware OR software gets very tedious.
Three processor/chassis/manufacturer changes in one decade.
Eight OS versions in the same decade.
Dropped support on both after barely three years of operation on each level--
Countless applications that break, or require paid updates/upgrades after each hardware/OS change
Way too expensive to keep up, or stay up, or catch up.....
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