Moreover, Microsoft® has officially dropped support for Windows XP.) (Note that XP support was already dropped in Adobe’s Lightroom 4, and the next version of Photoshop will follow suit. The vast majority of XP deployments are 32-bit 64-bit XP has a minuscule market share. See discussion above regarding 32-bit operating systems. Apple® has stopped security updates for Snow Leopard, and other vendors (including Adobe®) are already specifying 10.7 (Lion) in the system requirements for their latest products. (Note that Apple’s Aperture® 3.3 and Adobe’s Lightroom® 4 and Photoshop® CS6 have already dropped 32-bit support.)ĭue to upgrades in development tools, system libraries, programming languages, and our code base it might not be possible to continue backward compatibility for OS X 10.5/10.6. Moreover, 32-bit computers tend to be older, slower machines, so the user experience is suboptimal for a computing-intensive application like SilverFast 8. The 2-gigabyte-per-process memory limit is increasingly impractical for high-end image processing. With SilverFast 8.8 support for some older operating systems is discontinued:
