Adobe to drop OS 9 in next major Photoshop release

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Adobe's flagship product, Photoshop, will abandon Mac OS 9 support in its next major version, sources close to Adobe told MacCentral. While no final date has been set for the release of the next revision of Photoshop, Adobe is expected to introduce the product this fall.

"It's a big step for Adobe, but Apple made it clear that the future of the platform was going to be OS X," Jupiter Research analyst, Michael Gartenberg, told MacCentral. "The cost for developers to maintain two architectural releases is extremely prohibitive."

When Adobe announced Photoshop for Mac OS X in February 2002, the product was expected to bring creative professionals to Apple's Mac OS X operating system in large numbers, but there was no need for them to switch to a different OS -- Photoshop 7 was compatible with Mac OS 9.1 and Mac OS X.

This gave creative professionals the choice to stick with Mac OS 9, which was a comfortable and proven operating system for them. However, creative professionals who want to use the new version of Photoshop when it is released this fall will have no choice but to move to Mac OS X -- system requirements for Photoshop will call for Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar or higher.

News source: MacCentral

HoverDesk 3.0 MAJOR CHANGES :

XP 32 bits icons / PNG file support. Note: If a PNG file and a .ICO file are set for an object, then only the PNG file will be displayed - Windows 2000/XP only
Zoomer Objects with optional visual effects (recolor, rotation, alpha blending, dir/drive size content display) - Windows 2000/XP only
Bitstrip animation support (PNG files). Frames in file can be vertical or horizontal - Windows 2000/XP only
PNG support (auto-tiled to the screen width) for the taskbar background - Windows 2000/XP only
Optional true dropshadow for taskbar tiles with alpha blending support - Windows 2000/XP only
Caption for Tiles Objects can have 2 lines: On the caption, separate the lines by ## (ex : HoverDesk##3.0) - Windows 2000/XP only
Popupmenu Shell folders (desktop, my computer ...) now browseable - Windows all ver.
Optional true dropshadow below popupmenu (works with older themes) - Windows 2000/XP only
Optional fading effect instead of ellipsis (...) for labels on tiles - Windows all ver.
Optional dir. Content size: Displayed for Tiles Objects pointing to a directory/drive - Windows 2000/XP only
Window shade feature: you can roll up/down any window and/or display the tasklist popup menu by clicking on its title bar - Windows all ver.

Note that it's beta software so it may include some bugs. Be sure to backup any previous installation/themes

#1 Ishmael on 23 May 2003 - 14:30

Anyone know where the application site for becoming an Adobe beta tester is? I would really like to test this new version of PS and Indesign before they cram tehm out this fall. Ishmael

#2 Jstphish on 23 May 2003 - 14:53

I hope all professional apps go to OSX. OS9 likes to crash ... a lot.

#3 nic on 23 May 2003 - 16:41

It seems like each photoshop upgrade since 5.5 has been rather insignificant. At least to me. I have 7 at home and I really like the improved interface. I use 5.5 at work, and it gets the job done just fine.

#4 [NFC]Wave on 23 May 2003 - 17:18

I agree with Jstphish; OS9 is terrible for crashing. Everything should be moved over to OSX.

#5 dp123 on 23 May 2003 - 17:58

"It's a big step for Adobe, but Apple made it clear that the future of the platform was going to be OS X," Jupiter Research analyst, Michael Gartenberg, told MacCentral. "The cost for developers to maintain two architectural releases is extremely prohibitive." Research firms love going out of their way to look like mindless idiots, don't they? Since when is Adobe maintaining and shipping two different releases for the Mac? The fact is this was known over 6 months ago, and Adobe will rev most of their lineup late this summer for OS X. For those who are unaware, Adobe recoded their apps to the Carbon app framework. Their OS X only version will not be a full Cocoa app but will rather be a modified version of the Carbon port with some Cocoa elements. This is similar to what MS did initially--although then it was a retarded idea. MS used Carbon (presumably to make it usable for both platforms) but then used Carbon code that would only run on X.

(1 reply) #6 Mr. Black on 23 May 2003 - 20:37

Sorry to say I don't use the Mac, so I can't really comment about this story

#6.1 blackice912 on 23 May 2003 - 22:29

Yet you commented?

#7 Mgz on 24 May 2003 - 01:47

OS 9 sucksssssssssssssssssssssssssssss . It crash a lot (though I only use about 15 min/day n school)

#8 nookadum on 24 May 2003 - 03:14

OS9.2.2 works perfectly for me though, but I still recommend moving over to OS X. OS9.0.1 really sucked though.

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