Creative Cloud Drops Support for Older Operating Systems

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Adobe has announced that future updates of their video and audio tools will run only on the latest versions of MacOS and Windows. Lightroom and Photoshop are not affected, but programs such as After Effects and Premiere Pro will require Windows 10 (version 1709, or higher) or macOS 10.12 (or higher) to run.

If you’re running Windows 8.1, Windows 10 v1511 and v1607 or Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan), you can continue to run and install current and previous versions of Creative Cloud applications. However, you will not be able to install or run the next major release of Creative Cloud unless you’re on a supported version of Windows or MacOS.
 
I'd love to know what the technical reason is for not even allowing earlier versions of 10.
 
Windows 7 end-of-life is January, 2020. Maybe their stats show less and less Windows 7 business users..... but I think that would be strange.
 
So it's and ipad mini / iPhone now.........

Better have 512gb storage, 8gb of ram and 8000mah life.


Jeeze
 
necrosis said:
Uhhh. What about those of us who use the LTSB 2016 version of windows which is 1607?

Yay Adobe pulling more fucking bullshit like they are with their volume licensing in a few months.
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Yes, thought the same thing. However, a 1803 LTSC version is coming soon.
 
I really hate Adobe. I don't need their products, but used to work with a lot of graphic designers. You really didn't have a lot of options that would be accepted in the industry.
Illustrator and Photoshop are required to make a living in the graphics world. Sure, Gimp does some of it - but I've never encountered a firm that cares. Not a slam against Gimp, just Adobe has the world bent over its barrel.
 
bigdogchris said:
I'd love to know what the technical reason is for not even allowing earlier versions of 10.
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Their is no technical reasons. it just that the majority Userland let microsoft set precedent and now we have arbitrary application compatibility.

Welcome to the brave new world of closed circle compatibility. hope you have deep wallets cause its only going to get more expensive and quite possibly insane from here on out.
 
steakman1971 said:
I really hate Adobe. I don't need their products, but used to work with a lot of graphic designers. You really didn't have a lot of options that would be accepted in the industry.
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Really hate the subscription model. We kept using the older version as long as possible, but Adobe keeps adding minor changes that make the newer files incompatible with older version of the software. Usually just minor display glitches like colors or alignment issue. I'm sure it's on purpose to force people to give up the old version and pay for a subscription. Since we have marketing people working with files from vendors, I had to keep them current. It's costing us several time as much per year compared to upgrading every 2 or 3 years before.

As for dropping support for older OS's, this doesn't surprise me. Problem is that you are stuck since it's a subscription model if they won't allow it to be installed on older versions. At least with the disk installs, you could install it on a non-supported OS.

This is pure greed on Adobe's part, and I hope it eventually backfires on them. I'm sure their revenue for individual users has dropped due the higher costs, and due all the hacked copied of version 6 floating around on the internet.
 
This is what happens when you don't own something. The lease/subscription terms can change. All money spent on subscription fees is lost money if the terms change to something you can't support.

Have to wonder if there was a Microsoft supplied incentive for Adobe to make this requirement?
 
Adobe can pretty much call their own shots. There are alternatives, but basically nothing that provides the full suite of tools they offer. I'm sure someone crunched the numbers for having to support certain parts of older OS's and figured they could just stop.
As much as I hate their subscription model, the pricing isn't that horrible for it. Looking at what the full suite used to cost my company, the pricing hasn't been that different. The yearly updates have been just as large as full number upgrades in the past. They are absolutely trying to bury old versions, though. We have a few people on older versions and saving down so they can access things is getting tougher and tougher.
 
People have been moving from premiere to DaVinci resolve, there's even explanation videos on YouTube about it. It would help Adobe if they brought their products to Linux, so professional production workstations that operate in that space could consider Adobe. By not doing such they're really shooting themselves in the foot.

Also, wanna know a movie that was made with DaVinci Resolve? Deadpool 2, amongst plenty others.
 
BloodyIron said:
People have been moving from premiere to DaVinci resolve, there's even explanation videos on YouTube about it. It would help Adobe if they brought their products to Linux, so professional production workstations that operate in that space could consider Adobe. By not doing such they're really shooting themselves in the foot.

Also, wanna know a movie that was made with DaVinci Resolve? Deadpool 2, amongst plenty others.
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There are plenty of one-off products that can do what individual parts of Creative Suite can. The trick is that there aren't (m)any that offer a full line-up of products like Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Premiere, etc. that also happen to mostly work seamlessly together. For most companies and individuals it's simply easier to go with CC and potentially spring for 1-2 extra items that might work better for certain tasks.
 
The price of keeping the OS current is minuscule compared to the popular plan of Creative Cloud. :p
 
Welp, it's official. Adobe are fully in collusion with Microsoft. Some serious money has exchanged hands for this new & artificial exclusion. They pulled the same with their XD software, making it exclusive to Windows 10 (and worse UWP) in their official partnership.
 
My company just renewed our contract with Adobe a few months ago. We halved our usage but the price still went up 50% (aka a 3x increase per license). Not to mention the forced migration to named user licenses. We are in the process of evaluating alternative software options because of this.
 
I still have my trusty education version of CS6 installed that I paid $400 for 7 years ago.
 
Megalith said:
Adobe has announced that future updates of their video and audio tools will run only on the latest versions of MacOS and Windows. Lightroom and Photoshop are not affected, but programs such as After Effects and Premiere Pro will require Windows 10 (version 1709, or higher) or macOS 10.12 (or higher) to run.

If you’re running Windows 8.1, Windows 10 v1511 and v1607 or Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan), you can continue to run and install current and previous versions of Creative Cloud applications. However, you will not be able to install or run the next major release of Creative Cloud unless you’re on a supported version of Windows or MacOS.
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Oh, this is gonna be a ticket generator for me :(
 
[21CW]killerofall said:
My company just renewed our contract with Adobe a few months ago. We halved our usage but the price still went up 50% (aka a 3x increase per license). Not to mention the forced migration to named user licenses. We are in the process of evaluating alternative software options because of this.
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My company had an enterprise license with Adobe for several years - this gave many employees access to their products (which admittedly, most did not need all the features). I don't work with the team that manages software, but I know they ended up paying more and we had to get rid of access for a lot of people (me included). I'd occasionally use PhotoShop to fix an icon or similar. I can use a tool like paint.net since my needs are simple.
I know they have pissed off our IT department. However, what are we going to do? Adobe doesn't have lots of competition.
 
This isn't a one-off product. Go look it up. It's literally used to make blockbluster movies (Deadpool 2 is just one).

Domingo said:
There are plenty of one-off products that can do what individual parts of Creative Suite can. The trick is that there aren't (m)any that offer a full line-up of products like Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Premiere, etc. that also happen to mostly work seamlessly together. For most companies and individuals it's simply easier to go with CC and potentially spring for 1-2 extra items that might work better for certain tasks.
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