This is why i won't use the new illustrator 2014(.1) release

Question

I love drawing geometric shapes, logo's and icons for all short's of media. Unfortunately adobe decided to announce with its Illustrator 2014 release
that anchor handle's no longer snap to the grid. Whats even more frustrating is the fact they announced as a 'great new feature'.
Instead of adding a feature whereby you can toggle between anchor handle snapping or free anchor handle's it is banned from illustrator
without a warning. I can see why some people are happy with the free anchor handle behavior but it completely jolted my workflow.
And off course, you could use the basic geometric shapes and pathfinder to get the same results, but it takes about twice as much time.
Not to mention the complex stuff, which i didn't even try in illustrator 2014 / 2014.1.
It almost looks like a bug to me they apparently can't fix. I find it suspicious that there adding a new curvature pen tool. But they are unable / unwilling to
address this issue. It also fuel's my suspicious that there are unable to fix and instead, giving some tools that to the average illustrator user
are not particularly adding any value.

Answer 1

I think the poster has a good point. Sun is sadly one of the only 'named' players in the download a functional product arena. It really does not look good to those checking out new systems (particularly those putting out serverware) to have these problems. So all of the Linux people including Red Hat don't do this as well?
What problems? It sounded like he tried a web site, got a bad result, tried the "Chat" Feature, was told to contact tech support and then instead the poster started to bash Sun wherever possible.
Do Sun's or anyone else's stuff work 100% of the time? Would be nice but doesn't happen in the real world.
The original poster didn't say whether they did in fact try to contact tech support or simply try again at a later time or from another network. Things that we would expect someone to do. Even if it failed again there is the still the other option to just order the media.
I have been downloading software and purchasing 1,000s of dollars in hardware from sun without issue, but coming from linux my idea of issue is a bit different than a windows centric world.What does Windows have to do with anything here?
Also, by having this in the forums, others with the issue will be able to see both sides of the issue rather than just interoffice grumblings.I'm not part of any interoffice grumbling. This is an international forum where anyone, even people who want to bash Sun can post if they desire..
alan