Adobe has moved to scotch widely-reported rumours claiming Creative Suite 4 will ship in October, with company senior vice president, John Nack, slamming the speculation as being “just made up”.
“Gizmodo is repeating info found on a site called TG Daily, stating that "Photoshop CS4" (a term that I've never heard anyone from Adobe use publicly) "is expected to be released on October 1." Uhh... expected by whom? And based on what?,” he writes.
Nack then moves into the offensive, saying he never said “anything about schedule”, adding, “In fact, I never said that any of this stuff is promised to go into any particular version of Photoshop.”
He claims the central features of the reports - that Adobe is developing ways to harness the graphics processing unit of computers to accelerate certain image editing fucnctions - is simply a “technology demonstration”.
“Doesn't matter, though: Someone pulled a date apparently out of thin air, and now everyone who can copy & paste is dutifully repeating it,” he says. Nack then argues that the widespread reporting of the incorrect rumour suggests “falling journalistic standards across the board.”
In related news, Adobe today released demo versions of three applications the company is currently developing for release in Creative Suite 4, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth.
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