A New Dreamweaver!

Mar 28, 2007 @ 01:27 pm by Dr. Bruce Spitzer

Adobe announced just yesterday the release of an updated Dreamweaver (didn’t we just get an updated version???).

You should see some of the features available, though.  Check out this site:

Adobe Dreamweaver CS

4 Comments »

  1. This is truly interesting.

    Comment by Megan — March 28, 2007 @ 6:04 pm

  2. I like new updates.

    Comment by Amanda Cox — October 22, 2007 @ 2:45 pm

  3. What happens when we get to the point where major software updates occur faster than the semester it takes to learn them?

    Comment by Jed Walls — February 5, 2008 @ 4:13 pm

  4. Interesting comment, Jed. I can’t point to any “major software updates” that come out that fast . . . there are plenty of minor bug fixes, but I haven’t seen complete redesigns coming out within months of one another.

    Here are the release dates for Dreamweaver:
    * Dreamweaver 1.0 (Released December 1997)
    * Dreamweaver 2.0 (Released December 1998)
    * Dreamweaver 3.0 (Released December 1999)
    * Dreamweaver UltraDev 4.0 (Released December 2000)
    * Dreamweaver MX (Released May 29, 2002. Version 6.0)
    * Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Released September 10, 2003. Version 7.0)
    * Dreamweaver 8 (Released September 13, 2005)
    * Dreamweaver CS3 (Released April 16, 2007. Version 9.0)

    Dreamweaver 2, 3, 4, and MX 2004 each came out one calendar year after their predecessors; Dreamweaver MX, 8, and CS3 each came out 2 calendar years after their predecessors.

    Here are the release dates for Microsoft Word:
    * 1989 November — Word for Windows 1.0 for Windows 2.x, code-named “Opus”
    * 1990 March — Word for Windows 1.1 for Windows 3.0, code-named “Bill the Cat”
    * 1990 June — Word for Windows 1.1a for Windows 3.1
    * 1991 — Word for Windows 2.0, code-named “Spaceman Spiff”
    * 1993 — Word for Windows 6.0, code named “T3″ (renumbered “6″ to bring Windows version numbering in line with that of DOS version, Macintosh version and also WordPerfect, the main competing word processor at the time; also a 32-bit version for Windows NT only)
    * 1995 — Word for Windows 95 (version 7.0) – included in Office 95
    * 1997 — Word 97 (version 8.0) included in Office 97
    * 1999 — Word 2000 (version 9.0) included in Office 2000
    * 2001 — Word 2002 (version 10) included in Office XP
    * 2003 — Word 2003 (officially “Microsoft Office Word 2003″) – (ver. 11) included in Office 2003
    * 2006 — Word 2007 (officially “Microsoft Office Word 2007″) – (ver. 12) included in Office 2007; released to businesses on November 30th 2006, released worldwide to consumers on January 30th 2007

    Here you find a calendar year between 1.1 and 2.0 (for Windows 3.0); there are 2 calendar years between subsequent versions until you get to the 3 years between releases in 2003 and 2006.

    So, will updates start coming faster than on a 16-week semester basis? My intuition says probably not . . . it takes longer than that just to market the new version, let alone actually work the code.

    I understand your frustration at the apparent rapid speed of technology innovation. But isn’t that what gets us geeks all excited?????

    PS: thanks to Wikipedia.com for the software release data.

    Comment by Dr. Bruce Spitzer — February 6, 2008 @ 12:36 pm

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