So our company has been trying to get Adobe CS3 Photoshop and Illustrator because we need updated versions to deal with customer’s artwork who are using newer versions. We have Macromedia Studio 8 which can upgrade to Adobe CS3 Design Premium, so I assumed I would be able to upgrade to a cheaper version such as Adobe CS3 Design Standard. Boy was I wrong! You cannot upgrade to Adobe CS3 Design Standard from Macromedia Studio 8, you can only upgrade to Adobe CS3 Design Premium! So, now we have this perfectly good Design Standard upgrade box just sitting on a desk waiting for us to purchase either CS1 or CS2 so we can instal it. What a waste of time and resources!
Now, I do understand that the programs that are in Studio 8 are not in Design Standard, and that it’s a legit argument that I would not be able to upgrade. I just still think it is a little on the ridiculous side because it costs the same amount of money to upgrade from CS1, CS2, and Studio 8 to Design Premium, but only CS1 and CS2 can upgrade to Design Standard. Adobe, I appreciate all your doing for us with these wonderful programs, but I hate your policies. Especially when I paid for a good copy of CS3 and didn’t just Limewire it all.
Turns out I’m not the only one with this problem. You can check out this guy on MacNN who had a similar problem.
