{"id":207,"date":"2008-02-11T22:33:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T03:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/downgrading-cs3\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T18:05:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T23:05:28","slug":"downgrading-cs3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/downgrading-cs3\/","title":{"rendered":"Downgrading from Adobe CS3"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written about Flash CS3 wasting screen space<\/a> and Flash CS3 dropping PDF file import features<\/a> but my humble little articles didn’t receive much attention. Well, today I read that the creator of WordPress<\/a>, Matt Mullenweg, (i.e. a bigshot) has abandoned DreamWeaver CS3<\/a> and gone back to using DreamWeaver 8. Not only that, but many of his blog readers have done or will do the same.<\/p>\n

Of course I realize that one other blog post doesn’t necessarily validate all my criticisms of CS3 but I find it consoling to know I’m not the only one to balk at the latest incarnation of Adobe’s CS3 tools.<\/p>\n

Why do I think this is important? This is similar to recent stories<\/a> regarding Microsoft Windows users who have downgraded from *New Improved* Vista to *Old Reliable* XP. It’s a sign that a big company is losing touch with the needs of their clients and may be accelerating their own obsolescence.<\/p>\n

It’s no secret that I feel Adobe has left its vast “little guy” user base to pursue a smaller pool of “big fish” developers but what will happen if Adobe doesn’t make a product to satisfy either type of user? Will it open the door for competing technologies? What’s your opinion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adobe’s new CS suites of software aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Some big names have stopped upgrading and gone back to older versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash","tag-adobe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}