rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

I have lost track of how many Applications stopped working due to OS upgrades. My iPhone and iPad keep updating, my various Windows desktops, laptops and tablets are all up to date. Sadly, it is the way things are right now.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

Personally, my main desktops are all fully upgraded Windows 10 (as Well as 3 laptops). But I do keep one old laptop (still runs okay) with Windows 3, one with Vista, and one with Windows 7. The only (true) reason is that they weren't worth upgrading and provide me with a test bed for older software etc. Also I have an old version of Warcraft and Diablo and neither will run on Windows 10. Having said that, this does give me a test bed (so to speak) for software. The Adobe announcement will not affect me as I keep it up to date on 2 desktops here in Florida, 2 desktops in Pennsylvania (for when we travel up to visit friends) and 2 Windows 10 laptops for traveling. Adobe's log-in makes this an easy solution as they allow ANY two be be online at a given time. So, when home, I am logged into my computer and or one laptop. The wife is logged in to one home computer and or one laptop. if traveling we take our laptops from home but we can always log into a desktop with Adobe installed up north. When we decide to log into one of the additional computers, Adobe tells us to log out of one of the current ones first or it will log us out of everything and that gives us two logins remotely. If we are traveling, we don't need to be logged in at home anyway.

johnst1001a Loc: West Chester, Ohio

As long as my computer handles the latest operating system, I upgrade very soon after release. Mac owner, rarely have any issues other than one where I had to reload my Topaz plugin's. Not a big deal. Otherwise never had an issue.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Gee, I hope my CS6 keeps working with my Windows 10.

Ron 717 Loc: Pennsylvania

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Ain’t technology wonderful! Yet those 50 year old film reels, tanks, and enlargers still work regardless . . . .something to be said for that.

Stan

CaptainPhoto

Still running Windows 7 - my goodness, Way back when Microsoft first came out with Windows 10, if you had Windows 7 the upgrade was FREE.
Windows 10 came out July 29, 2015. So why not get the FREE version back then.

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

Anyone else here in the Windows Insider program besides me?

NCMtnMan Loc: N. Fork New River, Ashe Co., NC

Not surprising at all. Microsoft announced a while back that all support for Windows 7 ends January of 2020 (less than a year and a half away). Software developers cannot wait until the last minute to get their products compatible to current standards. If your system is 5 years or older, I would not recommend that you bother with trying to upgrade it. Your time and money would be better spent on a new system unless you have some serious IT experience.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Good for them! Apple and Microsoft support only the last two operating systems released, when they release security fixes. If you're using anything older than that, your computer is potentially vulnerable to all sorts of malware and other nefarious schemes. If you're running Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, or any version of Mac OS X (not to be confused with MacOS!), shame on you! The cyber world is a seething cauldron of dangerous opportunities to be attacked by people who want to drain your bank account, steal your identity, lock up your data for ransom money, or just erase your hard drive.

It also costs a lot of money to have trained support people available to help people using older equipment. It costs a lot of money to test code for multiple versions of Windows and MacOS. It just isn't practical any longer.

A lot of older folks don't get this. They think they should be able to buy a computer and software and use it for a decade... or life. Well, folks, if that's you, get over it! That's not how the computer industry works! It never has been, and never will be. This is why the move to subscription models is so important.

My Mid-2010 Mac Mini works perfectly with the current MacOS (10.13.6). But it will not work with the next version. I'll continue to use it for another year, but after that, it gets put in a closet, after I remove the drive and transfer the data.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I still have all my darkroom gear and most of my film camera gear from 1965 and later. I haven't used the darkroom stuff since 1993, or the camera gear since 2005, but it's all in usable shape. I'm waiting for the right sucker/victim to sell it to.

baygolf Loc: DMV

I think the bottom line now is, can one still get Windows 10 for free and will an old Windows 7 computer run it????

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

As one of the “older folk” here, I do get it. However, as a manager of software application development who had a team of testers working for me, I never had Adobe’s problem.

Applications as a whole can be designed to operate on multiple platforms and operating system levels (easily detectable at run time). If a particular feature cannot be “backward compatible” all you need to do is to disable it and say, “Sorry, your operating system doesn’t allow us to provide this feature.”

Adobe never figured this out so I just stopped being a customer and never regretted it.

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

Some older computers cannot be upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Check with the manufacturer.

I had to install something called Never10 to prevent Microsoft from forcing an automatic upgrade on me.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Actually, they do allow the current Lightroom Classic CC 2018 to run on certain older computers that don’t have hardware support for some features. My Mini is one of them. Of course, running LR on a 2010 Mac Mini is like hauling a camping trailer with a Smart Car. So I don’t do it...