“The team decided to make available patches for Photoshop CS5.x, Illustrator CS5.x, and Flash Professional CS5.x.” The time frame for availability of those fixes is unclear. “We are still in the process of finalizing the timeline for the patches,” the spokesperson said. “We will update the respective security bulletins once the patches are available.”
It’s good that they did this, but the original decision to not issue updates and force people to upgrade to CS6 left a bad taste for many users.
As much as I hated Quark, I’m extremely sad that Adobe has completely taken over the professional creative market. Their software and policies seem to piss me off more with every upgrade.
The previous announcement might have been a trial balloon concocted by some Adobe marketing slug to gauge how compliant Adobe’s professional customers have become.
CS4 and CS5 have not been end-of-lifed yet. Not supporting them would be a cheat to customers who have reasonable expectations of the software’s viability.
While it’s encouraging that Adobe keeps giving in when their customers revolt, it would be better if they just quit making such stupid decisions in the first place.
Come on, Adobe. We want to hug it out. We want to love you. Your engineers want to be loved. Now quit kicking us in the crotch.
Adobe products have more holes than Finlandia swiss cheese. Every day it’s another Flash or Acrobat Reader hole. Now it’s photoshop too. Then to have the balls to tell people to upgrade because of their sloppy work? Of course they retracted on this issue. Even they saw how stupid they looked.
““The team decided to make patches available…”
You lying weasels. If you’re ever sitting around and wondering, “Gee – why doesn’t anyone like us?” it’s because of decisions like this, Adobe.
I don’t care what ANYBODY says. I’ve been a happy professional Adobe customer for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS!
I’ve made my living for the past two and a half decades using Adobe tools and can’t imagine what I would have done without them.
I haven’t experienced more than a tiny fraction of all the crap you people accuse Adobe of–nothing to do with this SECURITY brouhaha at least.
This latest little flap is ironic, too, in light of Adobe’s new Creative Cloud initiative.
We couldn’t be happier with the new CS6 apps, basically ALL of which are now available to us and at $30/mo for our yearly subscription commitment, to say nothing of the other benefits and goodies they offer.
I think Adobe is now on a serious roll, and we’ll be hearing news about the astounding success of Creative Cloud which will pretty much overshadow all this incessant whining.
But then, y’all exercise your precious rights to whine. I’m too busy enjoying my work with these great new tools.
“I don’t care what ANYBODY says.” Those words alone probably explain why you are so happy with Adobe’s general approach to business.
A little too late there Adobe. My MBP has been purged of all Adobe products. Good Riddance!
I can’t remember ever installing a “security update” to begin with, so I could care less if they’re available for CS5 or not. I run both CS5 and CS6 right now, and couldn’t be happier with both of them.
Adobe has a lot of flaws, but IMO, they aren’t nearly as bad as people make them out to be.
You probably don’t remember installing any security updates because Adobe doesn’t call them out. If you’re up-to-date on CS5, though, you’ve installed several.
Security updates are either rolled in with a regular point release or simply labeled as a regular point release.