Adobe Creative Suite 2 Announced

[maveness]

Activation

I'm a legitimate owner of CS1... in fact I just bought it about 2 weeks ago (wonder if I can get a free upgrade?). I have been buying Adobe (or formerly Aldus) software for ten years.

BUT, I need to have it on two computers, my desktop and my laptop. They are never used simultaneously. It is unreasonable to expect me to pay full price for a second license for the second CPU.

If the new activation scheme prevents that, I WILL NOT be upgrading. And I WILL be writing an angry but eloquent letter to Adobe.

 

[Blue Velvet]

If the new activation scheme prevents that, I WILL NOT be upgrading. And I WILL be writing an angry but eloquent letter to Adobe.

Cool down. 🙂
They are keeping the same EULA -- you can have your cake and eat it too.

 

[macstudent]

Free Upgrade

Our marketing department ordered the creative suite 1 last week, and we have not even received the shipment yet. I called adobe today and they told me that we would be able to receive the free upgrade. We would just have to pay for shipping.

 

[mstinnett]

5 houses? Only live in 2? Isn't that gluttonous excess?
How do you make that kind of money without a connection, legally, morally or offering a service without taking advantage of of a part of the population?
I'm curious.

I only live in 2 and I'm home with my parents maybe 70% of the time. (I'm not in school yet - I'm in a year off, so I'm alone the rest of the time) They live in all five. I find the arragement rather excessive, and would prefer to only have one home.

My dad owns and runs thrift stores in four cities, runs a few building management companies that buy and sell real estate, personally invests in land, ski hills, golf courses, runs a rag business... I can't think of anything else right now but I'm sure he does more. He worked really hard from about 25 to 40, and now.... we spend a lot of time in the Florida Keys. He started out with money, which helps, but he grew it by an order of magnitude... or two.

Curiousity satisfied?

As for EULAs, a few of you wrote that I was stealing, and I agree after reading the EULA for CS 1.0. I object that the license is not granted to the user, but rather to a computer. I think they should focus on allowing one USER the right to use the software installed on any computer (so if my friend is license, he could use my copy of the software too, and vice versa). As long as quantum mechanics still works, then each user could only use one copy of the software at any point in time, she or he would just shift the point of usage. Shrug.

-Michael

 

[arkmannj]

confused

Does anyone know if Adobe will be offering a Technology guarantee (free upgrade for those of who purchased products with x amount of days of the announcement)
and if so where I could find out more information on it.
I just purchased the Adobe Creative suite, not long ago and it would be rotten luck if they don't.

THANKS!

ok so I purchased CS Premium 1.3 (Academic Ed.) on Feb 24 2005 (39 Days ago)
I called Adobe and one lady said Yes I would qualify for a free upgrade, but during a transfer I got disconnected, so I eagerly called back, got a new Rep... the new rep said No I would not qualify. and he persisted on the conversation
leading towards me buying a whole new copy, or upgrading to a commercial version of CS2
hmm if I had that kinda money to dish out left & right would I really still be a student trying to make ends meet? If I could afford almost $500.00 twice (about 1K) then I would have just bought the commercial version to begin with so that I could at least make profit of the stuff I do
(rather than being limited to just school use, and personal use)

so now I'm just confused, do I qualify or not, and I sure hope so. I like the technology upgrade Microsoft did for office X and office X 2004.

 

[rendezvouscp]

yeah and they could call it "webPages" HAhahahahahhahahaha

😀 🙄

So stupid, but this is the funniest thing I've "seen" (and "heard") all day. 😀

Looks like a improved feature set. Here's hoping that it's getting somewhat faster!
-Chase

 

[Paul O'Keefe]

post-announcement upgrade

A post-announcement upgrade is Adobe's terminology for a free upgrade to the new software because the user just recently bought the old software version. I've availed of this before. There are a couple of people in my office who got CS a few months ago. More than likely they'll be able to get the free upgrade on some of the programs in the bundle (except Acrobat 7 which already came in the last version).

So far Adobe hasn't made this announcement of this upgrade on their site yet. I expect it will though.

 

[anjaki]

As for EULAs, a few of you wrote that I was stealing, and I agree after reading the EULA for CS 1.0. I object that the license is not granted to the user, but rather to a computer
-Michael

Interesting...... that means that if my 2 computers were stolen, my installation copy of cs would suddenly be worth that of a stale piece of bread.

 

[arkmannj]

post-announce upgrade

A post-announcement upgrade is Adobe's terminology for a free upgrade to the new software because the user just recently bought the old software version. I've availed of this before. There are a couple of people in my office who got CS a few months ago. More than likely they'll be able to get the free upgrade on some of the programs in the bundle (except Acrobat 7 which already came in the last version).

So far Adobe hasn't made this announcement of this upgrade on their site yet. I expect it will though.

Thanks for the termonoligy update. that might have been helpful for me to call it that on the phone when I called. but I think they understood what I was meaning.

thanks again

 

[bpd115]

by having a 'phone activation' there will be a crack within days for this.

Symantic tries to do the same thing on the Windows side as well but it's been cracked with a key generator.

 

[stoid]

by having a 'phone activation' there will be a crack within days for this.

Symantic tries to do the same thing on the Windows side as well but it's been cracked with a key generator.

The idea is not to stop all piracy. That simply isn't possible to make an app totally crack proof. The idea is to find a suitible mid-range taht will stop people from casually installing an more computer's than they are licensed while not hindering the honest customer too much.

And IIRC it's a web-based activation, not a phone call.

 

[iriejedi]

Noise Reduction

Ha! I thought they wanted noise reduction from the G5's fans! 😛

Photoshop CS2 has advanced noise reduction tools built-in for high-ISO shooting and JPEG artifact reduction. The latter tool should compete well against other competitors like Binus.

 

[iriejedi]

2 CPU's

Mellow out - I just bought them all about two months ago... so no free upgrade for me...

but the article clearly states that you can use it on TWO computers... so as long as that is you intention you have nothing to worry about.
😛

I'm a legitimate owner of CS1... in fact I just bought it about 2 weeks ago (wonder if I can get a free upgrade?). I have been buying Adobe (or formerly Aldus) software for ten years.

BUT, I need to have it on two computers, my desktop and my laptop. They are never used simultaneously. It is unreasonable to expect me to pay full price for a second license for the second CPU.

If the new activation scheme prevents that, I WILL NOT be upgrading. And I WILL be writing an angry but eloquent letter to Adobe.

 

[Blue Velvet]

And IIRC it's a web-based activation, not a phone call.

So very wrong. You obviously don't have a clue... It takes 10 seconds to check this fact -- why don't you look it up first before 'correcting' people with your erroneous information? 😡

From Adobe's activation info page:
http://www.adobe.com/activation/moreinfo.html

With telephone-based activation, the authentication code is relayed to the user by either a voice response system or an Adobe customer service representative. After receiving the authentication code via telephone, the user types it into the required field to complete the activation process. The authentication code then unlocks (activates) the software.

You think every Mac in the world is hooked up to web? 🙄

 

[arkmannj]

From the website:
"Internet or phone connection required for product activation"

found at:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/systemreqs.html
(near the bottom of the page)

I know this isn't anything new, from what's been said, I'm just chiming in that it can be done over the internet or the phone.
doesn't really bother me either way.. though I prefer the internet registration personally.