![]() There are very few apps which cannot be run in workstation or server versions of Windows and most often the reason is purely commercial or, you cannot run it in the workstation version due to memory limitations, for example.įurthermore, in addition of being unhelpful, it is also unpractical and even unpolite to ignore the issue of a few by saying "Please install on a computer which meets the system requirements". Sometimes developers misconfigure it to refuse to accept later versions of the OS! I hope Adobe can do this little change to us all and stop unnecessarily limit users to Windows workstation versions. It is a simple lookup function and has nothing to do with real system requirements. Having done a couple of software installers for Windows, I know that it is the Windows Installer that checks these prerequisites according to a simple list in the installer package and if the OS is not listed there, it refuses to install. That must have been lazy from Adobe's part. This stupid thing followed all stand-alone Lightroom installers year after year and yet, the LIghtroom worked well. I had to pick the separate setup64.exe from the uncompressed file to install the 64-bit version. There the 'setup.exe' wanted always to install the 32-bit version in 64-bit server OS. Similar (but not the same) case used to exist in the old stand-alone Lightroom installers. I'm almost 100% confident that it is only a missing check mark in the list of allowed OSes in the installation package, nothing else and is a totally unnecessarily limitation. Please talk to the developers and ask what sort of OS feature is now missing from the server OS that now rejects updates. I am sorry Jeff, but I refuse to believe without explanations that suddenly all 7 apps I have used for years are now using a feature that really is missing from Windows Server 2016, which – if you didn't know it – is updated hand-in-hand with Windows 10 and has the same UI and (almost) everything.
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