14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft made available Windows Vista for businesses in November 2006, and for general consumers in January 2007. Additionally, Vista was released to manufacturing on November 8, 2006, almost a month before the business launch and three ahead of the consumer release of the operating system. And still, Adobe managed to drag its feet when it came to delivering support for Microsoft's latest operating system. And it looks like the same thing is now happening with Apple's Mac OS Leopard.
When Windows Vista initially came out, no Adobe product delivered support for the platform. Bombarded with a flood of questions over Windows Vista support, Adobe made public a document entitled "How Adobe Products Support Windows Vista." "Adobe is committed to helping its customers transition smoothly to the new Windows Vista operating system. This document details how current and upcoming Adobe products support Windows Vista," reads the first paragraph of the resource still available for your reading pleasure here. At that time, only Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0.2, Photoshop Elements 5.0.2 and Flash 9 offered support for Windows Vista.
Otherwise, Adobe provided an interminable list with all of its remaining products that did not offer support for Vista, or at least not officially. Meaning that the respective products would install and run on Vista, but with inherent issues. When it came down to Vista support, Adobe had to take it all the way. And it didn't even bother with the Home Basic edition of the platform with Creative Suite 3.
But one thing that Adobe does not do is discriminate. And apparently, it will put Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard through the same pains as Windows Vista. Apple users waiting for Leopard in October - as the operating system was delayed from June due to the imminent iPhone launch - will have a tad of a surprise when they will attempt to install Creative Suite 3: no official support.
Chief Executive Bruce Chizen revealed that just as the case with Vista Home Basic, Adobe has not tested CS3 on Leopard. Adobe is in this sense ready to make the final adjustments to the latest version of the Creative Suite if it will generate problems when integrated into Leopard. Although mid September is already passed, and Apple is just around the corner from releasing the next version of Mac OS X, the Cupertino-based company has as yet failed to deliver the final version of Leopard to Adobe.