This update didn't suck

Adobe Says Photoshop Sales Strong. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Adobe Systems Inc., aided by strong sales of its newest Photoshop software, backed its second quarter guidance and said it would record a charge of $1 million to $2 million as it folds Accelio Corp. into the company. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]

People found out that you don't have to do that annoying CD swap dance during this upgrade, no wonder sales are strong. I hope Adobe, and any other company thinking about implementing the same brain-dead update scheme, has learned a valuable lesson. All the extra money is probably coming from a reduced number of tech support calls.

By the way, if you still need to pull that last 5.x-6.x update off, make an image of 5.x CD, mount it, and then run the update from the 6.x CD. Otherwise you are in for a world of hurt.

I will go on record and call that upgrade the dumbest upgrade since Microsoft Office 4.0 came out on 40+ floppy disks.