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Adobe abandons Creative Suite, announces Creative Cloud.
anyone with a CS 3 or later serial number will get their first Creative Cloud year for $29.99 per month. For everyone else, the complete version of Creative Cloud will set you back $49.99 per month, or you can purchase a single app subscription for $19.99 per month.
Does this mean that you have to store your data in the cloud? I mean, a lot of companies wouldn't want their assets being stored with a third party, and in some cases, might be legally prevented from doing so. And there are a lot of freelancers who do work for companies in direct competition with each other, and need to keep their documents strictly segregated.
WTF? Adobe was campaigning HARD for the professional post market after FCX was such a disaster, and now this?
If I have to relearn Media Composer, I'm going to be pretty cranky.
I think this means no more Adobe for me, because I get the web designer's cast offs. Unfortunately what it means for me is going back to Microsoft Publisher.
Does this mean that you have to store your data in the cloud?
I was forced to the Creative Cloud after last year's hard drive crash. I couldn't install my most recent version of Dreamweaver because I was missing one of the versions in the chain of updates. Mind you, I had paid for that chain of updates. Adobe takes the position that Macromedia never existed and Macromedia's data, including software licenses, went up in smoke when it bought the company. I found a cheaper introductory rate for a year, and after that, I'll have to figure out what I want to do.
The data does not have to stored online, and you can use the programs offline. The programs expire in some mysterious way, though. I'll have to figure that one out too.
Does this mean that you have to store your data in the cloud?
To the best of my knowledge, all it means is that the software becomes subscription-based. Rather than paying for it up front and it's yours forever, you'll need to pay a monthly fee.
Still very sucky, though.
I think this means no more Adobe for me, because I get the web designer's cast offs. Unfortunately what it means for me is going back to Microsoft Publisher.
Why can't you keep using what you have?
Also, I can't get to Astrid today. I had some weird connectivity problems a minute ago and had to release and renew my dhcp leases. Is it a vestige from that, or is it actually down? If it's actually down, I am looking askance at Yahoo.
Hah, complaining about it made it work.
Why can't you keep using what you have?
I can until our publications department upgrades-- I have to use either what they are using (Adobe Indesign) or Publisher in order to use the templates. I was able to convince the IT department to give me Indesign because it was less than $200 and I have been using it for 5 years.
I am assuming that you can't use templates from the cloud on 5 year old Indesign.
