Comments on: What is Adobe thinking not supporting new computers?

By: scott

scott — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:39:23 +0000

In case you didn’t see it in your browser, all comments after the first one show up half off the screen in Firefox. I’m using version 2.0.0.14.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:38:43 +0000

Wow I hope this isn’t be the case for any applications, imagine spending $600 on an Adobe App it’s not yet compatible! LOL!

For a minute I thought it would only affect vista, but it’s for XP too.

By: Roderik Emmerink

Roderik Emmerink — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:14:41 +0000

I fully agree here. I noticed it a while ago and noticed it was still not available yesterday after my Vista reinstall (had to since hdd failed ). The same issue with the current JRE from Sun.

The same feeling as I had with Linux plugins and drivers for ages. These are just the things that turn you off. It disappoints me a lot, they should do these developments from the principal idea that it should not matter which platform you use and besides that I beleive that it will boost the product perception and will to adopt it even when you use another platform yourself.

By: Brendon Kozlowski

Brendon Kozlowski — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:49:40 +0000

I think that it’s much more surprising over how slow ALL 64-bit development has been. It’s seemingly not been made a priority, probably because all 64-bit OSs have been forced to provide a fallback for 32-bit based software, so what’s the (business) point in taking extra time to support 64-bit when there are still many people with 32 bit computers and a long lifetime?

It kinda sucks.

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:59:04 +0000

It’s more that just that. They do not support Vista Home Basic for some of their programs as well, so they are losing money.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:29:42 +0000

Interestingly, I came across this earlier today from the MS Silverlight website, a couple of hours after reading this post:

RECOMMENDED: Use Silverlight in the 32-bit Internet Explorer process on x64 systems. Most browser plug-ins (including Silverlight, Flash, Java and almost all ActiveX controls) only work in 32-bit browsers currently.

From this I gathered that a 32bit process IE/browser is required to run not only silverlight but also all the other plug-ins it mentions. I was trying to install on a 32 bit Vista just for reference.

I’ve no doubt that the 64bit support will soon come, but agree that it’s a little peculiar that it hasn’t been more swift in coming.