PHOTOSHOP/INDESIGN CS5 - WINDOWS IE8

Question

Are there any known conflicts between these, does anyone know?

Answer 1

That's fine if you are an enthusiast and have the scope and time to delve around.   Time and other affairs obliges me to regard computers (et al) with a rather utilitarian eye in that they are part of the production procedure with all the romance of a ballpoint pen.   I think the dependence on the machines has probably gone a little too far over here and I am not sure that it is a good thing.   Fortunately matters have not gone quite as far in Amrica so there may be some hope your side of the pond!
One thing I wish software manufacturers would do is to give their products more meaningful names.   I loaded Firefox on your advice and it seems fine insofar as I can get the Google Bar and the News on the same screen.   But had someone come up to me in the street and suggested loading Firefox, it would have meant nothing simply because the name conveys nothing of its function.
The same applied with Acrobat which was as great a revolution as anything any software produced.   Yet it must have existed for a good couple of years before anyone in the industry awoke to what it actually was.   If you said 'Acrobat' to most people ten years ago, they thought you were talking about a circus.   A more meaningful name - 'Digital Document' or something similar -  would have drawn attention to what the software actually did.   We only came across it by accident - in spite of being Adobe's best customer in this neck of the woods - but when we did realise what it allowed us to do, our way of working changed quite dramatically.   I spite of our lethargy in getting hold of the thing, we were still amongst the first in the field!