Only Handful Of Top Business ISVs Ship Vista Apps

Vista Plans Of Symantec, Intuit And Adobe
Symantec, for its part, announced that its AntiVirus Corporate Edition on the business side and Norton Internet Security and Norton 360 on the consumer side are Vista-compatible now, and "it's just a matter of time" before they are Certified for Vista, a company spokesman said.

Those compatible versions take advantage of new Vista APIs and other under-the-cover services of Vista, but a spokesman acknowledged that adding support for Vista's UAC is still in development.

Observers are also watching Adobe's plans for its next-generation versions of Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash and After Effects, which will ship this spring and summer and are optimized for Vista, a company spokesman said.

Adobe is keeping a tight lid on launch plans for its widely anticipated Creative Suite 3, saying only that the software will ship in spring 2007.

Industry sources say Adobe is targeting late March or early April for the release. The update will be a multiplatform Big Bang: It's the first from Adobe to natively support Apple's Intel-based Mac platform, as well as the first to support Vista. A beta version of the new Photoshop for Vista is winning strong reviews. A new UI consolidates the tool palette into a single column to free up screen space, and filters are now editable, among other enhancements.

In the interim, Adobe has provided Vista compatibility updates for Photoshop Elements 5.02 and Premier Elements 3.02 and will offer updates for Adobe Acrobat 8 and Reader 8 in the first half of 2007.

Google and Autodesk have Vista compatible applications on the market that have earned Microsoft's Works With Windows Vista logo, but they have not yet made the certification list.

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