will there be a new Technical Communication Suite when CS5 will be released next month ?

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March 26, 2010
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Dear Forum,

will there be a new Technical Communication Suite when CS5 will be released next month (April 2010) ?

We are close ordering the Technical Communication Suite 2 - will there be a grace period to get the

new version without getting charged again ?

Greetz from Europe,

Speedtriple

Technical Communication Suite

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JudyWiessner

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I'm wondering about that too.

I've been stuck before when I bought TCS, then tried to upgrade just Captivate when v4 was released, and couldn't do it. Took months to get my money back for the CS4 download.

Seems that anyone who buys a suite gets penalized for it. Surely it's in Adobe's best interest to upgrade users who invested in the more expensive product?

Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

If you go to the Adobe Volume license calculator here: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/volumelicense/calculator/avl.html

Enter in the TCS suite info for a new license, you'll see that it shows both a "2.0" and "2.5" as the available products. I suspect that that 2.5 is the interim release with the newer version of Captivate.

The typical release cycle is 18-24 months. TCS 2.0 was released at the end of February 2009. Eighteen months would put that at the end of July. Nothing much in the rumour mill about FM, RoboHelp or Acrobat lately, so the "math" suggests that a "new" version should probably be available sometime in March of 2011.

MichaelKazlow

Legend

There have been no announcements about a new version of the TCS. If a new one is due, those that know cannot speak they are under non-disclosure. Having said that, FrameMaker, Captivate, etc are not on the same upgrade cycle as the TCS. That is not to say, that a new TCS 2.x might not come out with an upgrade for Acrobat and Photoshop. Adobe updated TCS with a minor upgrade after Acrobat was updated for TCS 1.

Mike

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Anonymous

What about for compatibility with Windows 7 Professional (64-bit)? Keeping up with Windows 7 seems to be a problem for a lot of Adobe products, and those of us who are in the market for new laptops will definitely be running a faster OS if we can! (Hey, we need to keep up with Mac users!)

On another note, will Adobe offer a reduced upgrade price for the next TCS release if we buy Captivate 5, for example? Is this upgrade pricing offer the standard practice for Adobe? Thanks a lot!

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3Dgregory-l6Pj6i

Known Participant

I was wondering about when there would be a TCS 3 which includes Captivate 5 also.

Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

Adobe typically releases new versions of a product every 18-24 months. The TCS v.2 product was released in January 2009.

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