Like you, I find Adobe's licensing pretty outrageous, and they haven't exactly covered themselves in glory with me in a number of other respects. Drive imaging is one way round that, but it is far from elegant. But even if they do, I would be in trouble if I ever needed to reinstall. Maybe then I will try to update from Windows 7 to 10 and see if the applications work.

But if the installer fails, then the Applications might too.Īt the moment until it is fully released, I don't think I can test by upgrading. It failed to install, throwing up an error very quickly. I just attempted to install CS5 Design Standard into Windows 10 build 10240, which I believe is the final release coming out next week. Do I have to deactivate my CS5 Master Collection before my Windows 7 Pro upgrades, and then reactivate after my Windows has upgraded to Windows 10 pro? Windows Compatibility Center lists CS5 Master Collection as Compatible, to Windows 10 Technical Preview. As I said, I despise your subscription based products/model and would never use/upgrade to them! So maybe someone else, who has tried the Windows 10 builds and has CS products installed, could chime in, if their CS products still functioned and were activated in Windows 10, versus trying to push your cloud-based products on me? It was said on your site ( FAQ | Adobe Creative Suite) that CS6 would be offered indefinitely so you must have tested CS6 with Windows 10? Do I have to upgrade to CS6 or can I stay at CS5? You provided upgrades to CS5-CS6 for Windows 8.1, which is why I figured you would do the same for Windows 10! Many remained with the CS products over the CC products, because they preferred a perpetual license (one time cost), with no need for the cloud.

I surmise others will not like your answer either, and you will have a number of users asking you the same question, not only for CS5 but CS5.5 and CS6. Microsoft themselves do not see issue with it either when using their compatibility check. I know others were able to use CS5/CS5.5/CS6 in Windows 8.1, ( Windows 8.1 compatibility FAQs | CC, CS6, Acrobat) so your answer is not sufficient for me. What I hoping, as an answer from Adobe, was what I would need to do in order to ensure it was still registered and activated in Windows 10, once the upgrade to the new operating system happened.

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