Adobe CS4 release date of September 23, 2008 announced

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Permalink Reply by Cynthia Blair on September 4, 2008 at 8:10pm

What are the new features worth buying it for?
I have Design Premium (CS3) and it's really annoying that Flash doesn't run on a 64-bit platform...I've been forced to have 2 browsers, one is 32-bit so I can view Flash. hope they've updated that!

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Permalink Reply by Krzysztof Mathews on September 4, 2008 at 9:32pm

From what I've experienced of software cycles, decent features tend to come with every other release.

When companies are being vaguely honest, they call an incomplete release a ".5" upgrade, as in Photoshop 5.5, which did not honestly add a great deal to Photoshop 5 aside from a few features that were intended for web development (ImageReady 1.0)

They learned that this did not work very often, so the paradigm is now that they will put out a full release (labeled as V1 to V2, v2 to V3, etc....you get the idea) with minor bug fixes, but no major developments, which of course would have previously been titled as a ".5" upgrade.

In my own case, Illustrator CS3 offers only minor cosmetic improvements over CS2. (Improved point selection and interface tweaks do NOT an upgrade make) My hope is that CS4 offers significant improvements in functionality.

That said, the announcement is scheduled for the end of the month. Adobe up to this point has allowed folks to download 30-day demos to test their products, so I am hoping that this tradition continues, and we can see what CS4 has in store.

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Permalink Reply by Krzysztof Mathews on September 23, 2008 at 3:08pm

Update: CS4 features announced today

http://tryit.adobe.com/us/cs4/family/?sdid=DOPBG#

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