I've been an Adobe (and Macromedia) user for a long time (since Illustrator 4, Photoshop 4, Dreamweaver 4, and when InDesign was called PageMaker), and I've never seen a more useless "upgrade" in a version of their products.
I did have some install issues like a lot of other people, but was able to fix them on my own (good thing, because their outsourced phone support is not what it used to be and a waste of time). My poor rating is because of the product itself. The "new" features are either bits and pieces of other products, or they are useless (such as the CSS Advisor which links to a site where everyone asks questions and no one answers, or the 3D effects in Photoshop, After Effects, and Flash without the inclusion of a 3D model creation program).
While you are able to customize the menus and palettes to a large degree, it is difficult and oft-times confusing for people who are used to where things used to be in the program. New users may be able to get used to it, but they are also cramped, non-intuitive, and, at times, simply don't work.
Creative Suite 3, released a mere 16 months before this version, was great. You do have to wonder: how much work went into this program after the company had massive layoffs yet released a new version a little over a year later?
I would recommend Creative Suite 3 for it's ease of use and general overall stability, but this CS4 gets a D- from me.
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