nospam
In article <sandman-d2cc79e8b19eb3d3ba8347abf9a3e66a@individual.net>,

Sandman: <http://tinyurl.com/nn9sde8>

Sandman: that link is *not* the same as the above, which is *exactly* why tinyurl is *bad* and should never be used, as it doesn't necessarily go to where the user says it does.

in the case of the above, it goes through an ad-tracker which can be blocked (and often is).

Sandman
That's really odd, it doesn't for me, and using tinyurl's preview function:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/nn9sde8

Shows it pointing directly at Adobe's site. I wonder what happened to your browser when you clicked it. Odd!

nospam: it's not my browser. you are once again, clueless.

NIce, always revert to being an asshole in spite of me saying nothing rude to you.

nospam
you blamed it on me due to your ignorance of the topic.

i assume you saw the story on some website and then copied the link directly to make a tinyurl out of it, not realizing that it was actually an ad-tracking redirect.

Sandman
Yeah, I was thinking more about the Windows folks

nospam: there is no difference for windows folks.

lightroom 5 requires win7 or later, as does lightroom 6, which means anyone who can run lr5 can run lr6.

Lightroom 6 will require Windows 7 *64bit*.

nospam
lightroom 5 requires a 64 bit processor. anyone who can run lightroom 5 can run lightroom 6, making this a complete non-issue.

<http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/system-requirements.html>>Photoshop

Windows € Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 64 processor* € Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1

Sandman
According to Steam stats, 12% of Windows 7 users are still at 32bit, but since most gamers are more likely to use 64bit I bet real-world numbers are a bit higher.

nospam
steam stats?? what does that have to do with adobe's customer base?? oh right, absolutely nothing.

adobe customers were pining for a 64 bit version of photoshop nearly *ten* years ago, leading up to cs4's release on windows in 2008 and also upset that mac users had to wait for cs5.

even if it is as high as 12%, it's still not enough to matter. they can easily be ignored (and should be).

Sandman
nospam: if someone hasn't upgraded from xp, they're certainly not going to be buying new software. why waste time supporting it?

Who said they should?

nospam
they shouldn't, that's the whole point.