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Adobe CS4 will be 64-bit, but only on Windows
April 4th, 2008 | 
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In a total reversal of what Windows and Macintosh users might expect, Adobe Creative Suite 4 will include 64-bit support for the Windows platform, but not for Mac.
Mac OS X users probably won’t get 64-bit support until CS5, the subsequent release of the graphics editing software, according to John Nack, Adobe’s Photoshop product manager.
Nack attributes this unanticipated state of affairs to Apple’s decision last year to halt development of 64-bit support for Carbon, a move which he says took Adobe and third-party developers by surprise. Adobe did make CS3 Intel-compatible, but kept Carbon as its core architecture.
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Next Photoshop will get 64-bit boost–on Windows only
Adobe Systems has shared the first scrap of information about its next version of Photoshop, CS4, and it’s a doozy: there will be a 64-bit version of the photo-editing software, but only for Windows and not for Mac OS X.
Adobe generally keeps features in the Windows and Mac versions at a level of parity, but that wasn’t possible this time around because of a change Apple made last year to the Mac’s programming underpinnings, John Nack, Adobe’s product manager for Photoshop, said in an interview.
“We’re not going to ship 64-bit native for Mac with CS4,” Nack said. “We respect Apple’s need to balance their resources and make decisions right for that platform. But it does have an impact on developers.”