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Adobe Software gripes.... crashes, bloating...
October 25th, 2007
The advent of Windows Vista, and all the software surrounding it, has led to bloat-city in the wares world. Adobe in particular... Adobe Premiere, for example -- I remember when version 4 used to fit on a few floppy disks. Now? It's 1.6GB! I know that software will grow as features are added... but what the hell do you need 1.6GB of space for? Probably all the fancy buttons, gradients and interface graphics for it.Granted, hard drives are cheap and processor power is plentiful. But there's another problem... particularly with the CS3 release of photoshop: QUALITY. For the second time ever in my history of using Photoshop - and that dates back to Version 3 when they first added layers - Photoshop has crashed with a fatal error to the desktop. In fact it just crashed twice in a row on me, unhandled exceptions. All I did was drag objects from one document to another... something I've done more times than I've probably gone to the bathroom in my life. What's up with that?
The last version, CS2, had fairly frequent errors but they were all being caught by an error handler ("This operation could not be completed due to a program error"). Ok, fair enough - at least I didn't lose my work. And in most cases I would just try again and it was fine. Now though?
All I can say is, Adobe is growing to unfathomable proportions and I hope they can keep things under control and quality up to par. For Adobe to start pulling shit like Telus does would be a huge blow to the graphic industry - considering Adobe practically owns the graphic industry.
Please Adobe... do not *%&#$ us around! You're on the very edge of going there...
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