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Adobe's Next Major Creative Cloud Release Won't Support Older OSes (petapixel.com)
nehumanuscrede writes: Adobe ruffled a lot of feathers when they decided to cease selling their standalone products and go subscription only. While a lot of folks complained, it doesn't seem to have had much (if any) of a negative impact on Adobe financially. Now, according to PetaPixel, Adobe is poised to cease support for older operating systems by depriving those users of upgrades and updates beyond the cut-off date, even though those users are paying customers (and have been for years). I'm curious if those impacted will upgrade to the more modern OS, or simply find an alternative to Adobe software (paid or otherwise).
Personally, I'm still rocking Windows 7 because, in my opinion, there isn't anything wrong with it. So, in the near future, it seems I'm going to have a choice to make: Drop my Creative Cloud subscription, upgrade to an OS I absolutely loathe like Windows 10, or continue paying full price for apps that will cease receiving updates (which was Adobe's whole argument for going with the subscription method in the first place so folks will always have the latest updated software). What are your thoughts? "Your Windows won't be supported if you haven't upgraded beyond the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (v1607) that was released to the public on August 2, 2016," reports PetaPixel. "And if you're on a Mac, you won't be supported if you haven't upgraded beyond Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan), which was released on September 30, 2015."
Personally, I'm still rocking Windows 7 because, in my opinion, there isn't anything wrong with it. So, in the near future, it seems I'm going to have a choice to make: Drop my Creative Cloud subscription, upgrade to an OS I absolutely loathe like Windows 10, or continue paying full price for apps that will cease receiving updates (which was Adobe's whole argument for going with the subscription method in the first place so folks will always have the latest updated software). What are your thoughts? "Your Windows won't be supported if you haven't upgraded beyond the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (v1607) that was released to the public on August 2, 2016," reports PetaPixel. "And if you're on a Mac, you won't be supported if you haven't upgraded beyond Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan), which was released on September 30, 2015."
Win 7 and CS6 still meet my needs. When they stop meeting my needs, I'll consider options.
When this computer dies, I'll probably continue to run Win7+CS6 in a VM.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
I wonder what the EU will do if Adobe mines through customer data. Is there a setting to opt out?
For NZ clients, I wonder if they can claim a refund. personally I will never be a hamster and run on a treadmill, and double that for a vendor with a track record.
Will Adobe be taken off govt contracts? Time to pull the pin.
shill for the evil empire much?
windows 7 is only unsupported by newer hardware (e.g. ryzen, coffee lake, etc) because microsoft paid-off amd and intel to drop pre-win10 support, knowing the vast majority of users would choose win7 on a new pc.
in adobe's case here...
is total bullshit. there's NOTHING in windows 10 or El Capitan that recent (win7 era or newer) previous versions lack that adobe "needs". NOTHING. it's a cop-out. an excuse. a lame one at that. probably also being compensated by microsoft..
Let's be clear and avoid the doublespeak, you are not paying a subscription, you are paying protection, either pay or the content you created no longer belongs to you. Straight up protection racket, do you know what improvements there will be in the software, what they will be able to sell to tempt you to buy upgrades, well, basically fuck all, hence the protection racket on your data, the content you created.
The tech corporations are all turning into massive dick brains, with massive erections for infinite profits for nothing. Start paying that protection and the price will go up and up and up infinitely. In a decade either they are dead or you can add a zero into that protection payment and not in your favour, in theirs.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
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No they aren't. They have a virtual monopoly. They could build in yet another tier that cuts the photography software out of the main supported software, double the price for it, and no one would ever complain.
"Boo-hoo! I need to update my OS! I can't run seven different versions of Photoshop or Indesign on my Mac. I'll actually need to BUY the new version."
Cry me a river. I have to support this crap for a print company at three locations, and help support it at five more. I have chats with our Adobe reps every week. Problem one for everyone is maintaining multiple versions across multiple OSes. I have Macs in this shop running OSX 10.11 with freaking CS 5 & 6 and every version of CC ever released. Five versions of Indesign are the norm. This is just so we can continue to serve clients who refuse to update.
If Adobe wants to force people to give up heir ancient copies of Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign to lower their support costs they have my blessing.
Go get 'em, guys!