Photoshop CC & Vegas 13 Under XP/Vista..?

[11ryanc]

Hi all.

Wondering if anybody's had any luck getting around OS checks using XP or Vista. I know PS CS6 was the last to support Windows XP, and even though it mentioned nothing of Vista worked under it as well. However I decided to put it to the test and see if the newest release of CC would install on my Vista install. Installer launched and made it past a few stages, but as soon as it got to the part where it identifies OS it just refused to go any further. Not that much a disappointment to me as I rarely use Adobe products anyways, and if anything prefer to use Fireworks for most of my work. So moving onto Vegas Pro. Starting with 12x it demands 64-bit architectures, and presumably Vista+. However their latest release completely refuses to work on Windows Vista despite being more than capable. I doubt enough was changed to truly make it not work on that OS, just a pure OS cap supposedly. I'm sure with some precision even XP x64 could run some of this stuff.

Lastly Windows XP software wise seems to be alright still. Same with Vista. Just slowly starting to diminish, mostly in the area of commercial software. Despite being a semi-modern OS these co's just don't want their software to work on it. Not sure why XP x64 is so abandoned either....

Just wondering what all that choose to remain with XP do for these sort of things. Could perhaps provide some insight as I use Vista.

Any info would be appreciated.

-Thanks