{"id":17574,"date":"2012-05-23T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T15:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=6762"},"modified":"2012-05-23T08:08:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T15:08:24","slug":"this-is-not-your-fathers-adobe-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/23\/this-is-not-your-fathers-adobe-installer\/","title":{"rendered":"This is *not* your father&#039;s Adobe installer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that Adobe&#8217;s installers were\u2026 well, to be charitable, not a source of pride. \u00a0A bunch of hardworking people have been <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/12\/notes_from_installer_mgmt.html\">listening<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/oobe\/\">engaging<\/a> with customers, and cranking away&#8211;and with\u00a0Creative Cloud you can see the results. To <a href=\"https:\/\/creative.adobe.com\/apps\">grab any CS6 app<\/a>,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li>Download &amp; install the App Manager (less than 1MB), then\u00a0log in with your Adobe ID.<\/li>\n<li>Click the links for the apps you want to install.<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;There&#8217;s no step 3!&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Right&#8211;no typing\/copying\/pasting serials (and potentially losing them later), no running installer after installer. Here&#8217;s a two-minute demo (though honestly you can probably try it yourself just as fast):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tv.adobe.com\/embed\/902\/13695\/\" width=\"425\" height=\"246\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry that installers were such a sore point in the past. Hats off to the installer team for buckling down &amp; hugely improving the user experience.<\/p>\n<p>PS&#8211;Engineering manager Eric Wilde says, &#8220;Please ask people to <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.adobe.com\/community\/download_install_setup\/creative_cloud_faq\">reach out to us on the forums<\/a> if they have trouble. There&#8217;s lots of engineering folk reading our forums daily.&#8221;<br \/>\n<i>[Update: Note that the new mechanism lets you <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2012\/05\/creative-cloud-subscriptions-cross-language-cross-platform.html\">install apps in multiple languages &#038; across platforms<\/a>, too.]<\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that Adobe&#8217;s installers were\u2026 well, to be charitable, not a source of pride. \u00a0A bunch of hardworking people have been listening, engaging with customers, and cranking away&#8211;and with\u00a0Creative Cloud you can see the results. To grab any CS6 app, Download &amp; install the App Manager (less than 1MB), then\u00a0log in with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}