Outsourcing sucks

[sharan]

O.K. Whose bright idea was it at Adobe to outsource all their programming? I was working in ImageReady CS and when trying to rename a layer the entire program decided to go *POOF!* and vanish along with all my work. This is the 2nd time this has happened so it's definitely a bug. Damn, I hope they don't ruin all the Macromedia products the same way now! You get what you pay for, and when it's your MAIN PRODUCT it is INCREDIBLY stupid to ruin it by being cheap. It's no longer worth paying $200 to upgrade to an inferior, buggy-as-hell product with a few new features.

Fortunately I had recently saved the main image I was working on but I'd started a new image that I'll have to start over now. Not THAT big a time loss but still frustrating.

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[redaxe.livejournal.com]

It's no longer worth paying $200 to upgrade to an inferior, buggy-as-hell product with a few new features.

You mean it ever was?

I tend to work a version or three behind in all the software I use, because it's stable and almost never lacking critical features. (One exception: Corel Draw. I have two machines, one loaded with v12 (current) and one with v11, because each drives me nuts in different ways. But it's worlds beyond Freehand, and the only excuse for Illustrator's existence is that it permits pasting vector paths into Photoshop.)

But then, I do office-based production for work and fine art for myself, and have no need to be cutting edge, latest-greatest versioned.