In Ontario, we are extremely fortunate to have a process where the Ministry of Education licenses software for use in all publically funded secondary schools. The software that is licensed comes after recommendation from the Ontario Software Acquisition Program Advisory Committee. I’m one of the representatives from Southwestern Ontario, for full disclosure.
One of the software titles that is licensed for Ontario Schools is the Adobe Creative Suite. In the past week, the software was upgraded to CS4 from the previously licensed CS3.
Previously licensed titles looked live every other. Under Windows, for example, there was a title bar with room for the pull-down menus. It was a standard look and every product looked like every other Windows product.
Here, for example, is a snap of the menus from Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Recently, though, Adobe has been changing their interface.
Here’s the menu bar from Dreamweaver CS4.


While it undoubtedly is, you really don’t feel like you’re working with a top end application. It just looks and feels friendlier. It just comes across more inviting to the end user.
Kudos to Adobe and their Graphic User Interface designers. They’ve made a great suite of products even better.
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