Adobe: Next Photoshop won't support Windows XP

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Windows XP has been tremendously popular, but support for the 11-year-old operating system is waning. The next Photoshop will require Windows 7 or later.


Apparently 11 years was long enough.
Microsoft released Windows XP in 2001, and Adobe said today that the current CS6 version of Photoshop will be the last one to support the operating system.
"The Photoshop team would like to provide advanced notice that Photoshop CS6 (13.0) will be the last major version of Photoshop to support Windows XP," Adobe Product Manager Tom Hogarty said in a blog post.
The reason, he said, is that modern performance-sensitive software requires modern hardware graphics interfaces that Windows XP lacks, in particular a way to tap into the power of graphics processing units (GPUs):

Leveraging advances available on newer operating systems and hardware allows us to deliver significantly better performance, and focus our innovation efforts around the areas of the greatest benefit to our customers.
Photoshop CS6 already demonstrates that relying on a modern operating system, graphics cards/GPUs and graphics drivers can lead to substantial improvements in 3D, Blur Gallery and Lighting Effect features not available to Windows XP customers. The team hopes that by providing this information early it will help you understand our current decisions around operating system support and where we we're headed with future releases of Photoshop. We encourage all customers who are currently using Windows XP to begin making their migration plans now so they can fully take advantage of future Photoshop innovations as soon as they are available.

Adobe will provide bug fixes to the current CS6 version, he said. Adobe has added a new Creative Cloud subscription option for the entire Creative Suite 6 and other software, for which customers pay $50 per month with an annual commitment, and one of its perks is that new features slated for CS7 will arrive as soon as Adobe is done with them. Those new features also won't come to Windows XP users, Hogarty said.

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Windows 7 edged out Windows XP in August as the most-used operating system on the Internet, Net Applications statistics show
(Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)
Adobe already dropped Windows XP support for the current version of a related product, Lightroom.
There are still millions of Windows XP users in the world, but the tide is starting to turn. Windows 7 just overtook Windows XP in Net Applications' monitoring of Internet site usage, for example.

Microsoft has been trying to push people toward newer versions for years, too, most recently toward the dramatically different Windows 8 that's finished but not formally launched to the public yet.
Another big company announced a related decision yesterday: Google announced it won't support Google Apps on IE8, the most recent version of Internet Explorer that runs on Windows XP. Windows Vista and Windows 7 both can run IE9, and Windows 8 comes with IE10.
That population of Windows XP users won't be totally left behind by Google's decision, though; they can use Firefox, Opera, or Chrome, or can install Google's Chrome Frame extension for Internet Explorer.

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still there are many xp users, bad for them but good to see more versions of photoshop coming.
 
ssparikshya said:
xp is going to close on may 2013 officially so,,

No XP will stop being supported on April 8th, 2014

Microsoft Business and Developer products, including Windows and Office products, receive a minimum of 10 years of support (5 years Mainstream Support and 5 years Extended Support), at the supported service pack level. the company will also stop offering support for Office 2003.
 
ssparikshya said:
i know but its non - official for indians
we are always stared ahead

Source please?.........I dont think they will do it.....1 year before? na

and Updates will release everywhere at a time and same it wont be different like mobile update versions
 
no, i think no one will use it for last time leave it 6 or 8 months before the stop date
or i dont think adonbe is gonna release next ps before 2014
 
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