[wtmcgee]

I'm looking to buy Studio 8, and I have an edu version of studio mx 2004 from about a year and a half ago. Will the Studio 8 upgrade accept the serial # from an edu version or am I going to have to buy the full Studio 8?

I poked around on the Macromedia site and didn't see any info on it.

[mduser63]

You can't upgrade the educational versions, you have to pay full price for the new version. Of course, if you're still a student, you can still get the new version for the EDU price. To be honest, unless there's a specific feature that you need, the upgrade to version 8 is probably not necessary. I had MX, and used MX 2004 extensively, and now have Studio 8, and nothing that's been added has been particularly important to me. I guess the better CSS support in Dreamweaver is nice, but that's about it.

[wtmcgee]

As a fairly new flash developer, I want to keep up with the software - plus some of the design tools built in flash 8 are pretty compelling. the whole suite feels a lot nicer this year. I'm not sure if I'll just buy Flash 8 or get the whole suite. I generally hand-code my xhtml/css and whatnot so i dont really need dreamweaver - but if i could get the whole Studio 8 for the upgrade price, I was going to go for it. Now I think I'll just buy Flash 8.

Thanks for the quick reply!