{"id":1735,"date":"2012-01-14T23:23:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T07:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/?page_id=1735"},"modified":"2024-10-10T06:59:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T14:59:57","slug":"adobe-fails-again-snatches-defeat-from-jaws-of-victory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/for-photographers\/adobe-fails-again-snatches-defeat-from-jaws-of-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Fails Again – Lightroom 4 Snatches Defeat from Jaws of Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adobe fouls up yet again. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Just as Lightroom was turning into a professional product, Adobe introduces Lightroom 4 (Beta) – and failed \/ refused to get it running on the most popular version of Windows – XP.<\/p>\n

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Adobe Management Goofyness
Credit: GaryVarvel.com<\/p><\/div>\n

It even runs on the most disdained iteration of Windows – Vista, but not on the most popular version – XP.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m not a fan of Windows, but – Adobe — you’ve got to be kidding.<\/p>\n

How do they do it ? Adobe gets so many things almost comically wrong<\/a> I’m wondering if they’re secretly auditioning to become a government agency.<\/p>\n

All of the other PC Raw development programs run on XP. (Aperture and DarkTable do not – as they are Mac, not PC, programs)<\/p>\n

Better Alternatives: If Adobe just slammed the door in your face, let me urge you to try DXO<\/a>, Silkypix<\/a>, Capture One<\/a>, RawTherapee<\/a> (which is free), DCraw<\/a>, DPP, PixInsight<\/a>, LightZone, Bibble<\/a> . . . and see some marvelous Raw development capabilities that you might not have realized existed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As an expert on Operating Systems with a fairly expansive imagination, I am confident there is absolutely nothing that Lightroom can do on Vista – that it can’t do on XP.<\/p>\n

That means this is just a lazy choice by Adobe “management.” They decided they don’t want to spend a little effort to support you who spent good money on Lightroom versions 1, 2 and 3 to run on XP.<\/p>\n

(Side note: Adobe doesn’t even warn you Lightroom 4 Beta won’t run on XP; at least not on their website. You have to first download the 400 megabyte program (Can you spell “Bloatware<\/a>?”) and try to install it. Only then do you get a notice that you have to upgrade to Vista. OMG ! Even PC Magazine fails to note, or realize this “feature.”)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m relieved that I won’t have to deal with Adobe again. The best part about leaving Adobe is I don’t have to put up with their dysfunctional institutional arrogance.<\/p>\n

The Lightroom team avoided this disease for a few years, but it finally caught up with, and infected them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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