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Shock Horror - Alady concealing her age. !!!!! I had assumed that you are younger than me, as a large majority of the people in the world are, so that makes you of a tender(ish ?) age

My turn to be cynical. I do not work in the print industry. I suspect that a lot of the Photoshop book industry is based on the number of pirated versions of PS that are around. It is not difficult to get it for free and then people want to learn what to do with it. If it was impossible to pirate I wonder how much it would be used by amateur photographers and then how many books would be sold. I did wonder if that had anything to do with the cut price offer but then realised that even at half price it would still be widely pirated. Even if it was £25 it still would be. Obviously I cannot be certain about any of this but it is what I feel.

We skipped Vista. I.T. did not want to touch it with a barge pole. No reason to use it. XP is fine and stable. Vista offered nothing for a commercial organisation. Apparenttly they may look at the replacement for Vista. I guess it depends on what support there will be for XP by then.