Photoshop CS6: Last to support Windows XP
17.09.2012
Photoshop team announced that Photoshop CS6 (13.0) is the last major version of Photoshop to support Windows XP (Windows Vista are not supported by this release). In addition, all subsequent Photoshop feature updates specifically for Creative Cloud members will no longer support Windows XP. The reason: Leveraging advances available on newer operating systems and hardware allows Adobe to deliver significantly better performance, and focus their innovation efforts around the areas of the greatest benefit to their customers (more). [source]
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