Adobe: From Photoshop CS7 does not support Windows XP

Although Windows XP is extremely popular, supporting an 11-year-old platform is outdated. The next version of Photoshop requires Windows 7 or higher.

Microsoft launched Windows XP in 2001, and Adobe on September 15 announced Photoshop CS6 as the final version supporting this platform. Product manager Tom Hogarty of Adobe wrote on the blog: 'The Photoshop team announced Photoshop CS6 (13.0) as the last Photoshop version to support Windows XP.'

The reason for this is that the software needs a more modern hardware graphical interface that Windows XP lacks, especially the way to utilize the power of the GPU. If you take advantage of the new operating system and new hardware, Adobe can deliver exceptional processing performance and focus your creative efforts to the greatest benefit for customers. Windows XP users themselves have not fully utilized the advantages of Photoshop CS6 as important upgrades in 3D, Blur Gallery and Lighting Effect.

Adobe will patch the current version of CS6. Recently, it launched Creative Cloud subscription for Creative Suite 6 and other software whereby users will pay $ 50 / month for a year. One of the advantages of this package is that the new features on CS7 will be updated immediately after Adobe completes. Of course, Windows XP users do not have this privilege.

Earlier, Adobe also stopped supporting Windows XP with Lightroom products. There are still millions of Windows XP users in the world, but Windows 7 has officially dethroned XP to become the world's most popular operating system. Over the years, Microsoft has been pushing users to switch to newer platforms, especially Windows 8 - that have been completed but have not been released to the public.

Another big company also announced a similar decision to Adobe on September 14: Google said it would not support Google Apps on IE8 - the most modern version of Internet Explorer running on Windows XP. Windows Vista and Windows 7 both run IE9, and Windows 8 will bring IE10.