Free download of Adobe Creative suite 2 and others.

[hazelnut]

Adobe has removed the activation servers for some EOL products, so all customers must now get new versions of the programs with offline activation key here or else their existing products will NOT be able to activate anymore with their existing keys and setup files.

 

http://www.wildersse...ad.php?t=339318

 

 

For those who had the software and perhaps lost the disc or key this is your last chance to get it again.

 

If you had put it on Win 7 at one time, you will remember I'm sure that as most of the software listed is for XP, you will have ran the installer in compatibility mode for XP.

 

As the poster over on Wilders says...

 

Correct. Let me explain. The internet, as soon as this page came up, exploded with posts of "Adobe giving away for free older versions of products!". To the point that initially, the Adobe page came down because of the too many downloads. Then Adobe came out to say that it's not a giveaway, but a way for their old customers that still use these products, to be able to activate again, because their current CDs and keys, won't work anymore.

 

So, this is an informative post for those users who are affected. Saying, like in several other fora "Adobe products for free", would be really against Adobe's official statement and this forum's TOS, so i thought to put the issue in its official status.

 

http://www.redflagde...miere-and-more/

[Guest Keatah]

BTW: what happened to SuperFast? Don't see no more posts..

 

http://www.redflagde...miere-and-more/

 

A lot of people are mistaking this for a freebie. Understand that Adobe would never do that out of the goodness of their heart. They are a big corporation. And big corporations don't do things like this. But yet they're making it very easy for anyone to get. Why? Because it is costing the company too much money in legacy support, both in manpower and in keeping the old activation servers running.

 

I bet them activation servers are running on Windows 2000 or earlier, and it's costing them a pretty penny to keep that old hardware & configuration going. Probably have to buy maintenance parts at eBay. Electricity is high for those paperback book sized Xeon processor cartridges. Loud and hot 40GB HDD's. 256MB ram. CRT monitors. Beige white PC cases. ISA/PCI hybrid motherboards. Tape on the mouse wires.. They said the hell with it. It's not like anybody is buying the old CS2 software anyways.

 

I'm sure they had a big million dollar meeting to analyze the cost of lost sales (which is 0), vs how much would be saved by throwing in the towel. And I'm sure they did a cost-analysis meeting to see if customer backlash would be even more costly to deal with (when the servers went down). There are still people running CS2 on Win98-era hardware. Do you think thousands of howling users and court cases would be good PR? The damage control would be MORE costly than any pereived lost sales.

 

Make no mistake, putting CS2 online for everyone to download is purely in the best interest of a corporation. Not yours.