Adobe CS3

On Tuesday Adobe announced the release of Creative Suite 3.  Take a deep breath before reading the new prices: "The estimated price for Creative Suite 3 Design Standard is $1,199 and for the Design Premium version, $1,799. The Web-oriented editions cost $999 for Web Standard and $1,599 for Web Premium. "  Creative Suite actually comes in 6, count 'em, six flavors (remind you of any OS we know?).  Click here for the CNet description, here for the Adobe press release.  The web-oriented version sill begin shipping in April, other editions later this summer.  The company spokesman, in a masterpiece of disingenuity, said  "...[Adobe] is not aware of any substantial problems with running Creative Suite 2 on Windows Vista but that the company is not officially recommending that usage because it has not done a full barrage of tests."  What, after 5 years of highly publicized Microsoft development, Vista came as a surprise to Adobe?  Of course they want you to spend another $1,000 to $2,500 on the same products you already own (whose feature sets the average user probably uses small subsets).  Caution before spending may be indicated.  Click here for a set of PDF files from Adobe describing the various CS3 packages, here for the Creative Suite 3 web site.