Creative Suite 6[edit]
During an Adobe conference call on June 21, 2011, CEO Shantanu Narayen said that the April 2011 launch of CS5.5 was "the first release in our transition to an annual release cycle", adding, "We intend to ship the next milestone release of Creative Suite in 2012."[33] On March 21, 2012, Adobe released a freely available beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS6.[34] The final version of Adobe CS6 was launched on a release event April 23, 2012,[35] and first shipped May 7.[1] Adobe also launched a subscription-based offering named Adobe Creative Cloud where users are able to gain access to individual applications or the full Adobe Creative Suite 6 suite on a per-month basis, plus additional cloud storage spaces and services.[36]
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Discontinuation[edit]
Main article: Adobe Creative Cloud
On May 5, 2013, during the opening keynote of its Adobe MAX conference, Adobe announced that it was retiring the "Creative Suite" branding in favor of "Creative Cloud", and making all future feature updates to its software (now appended with "CC" instead of "CS", e.g. Photoshop CC) available via the Creative Cloud subscription service rather than through the purchasing of perpetual licenses.[37]
Customers must pay a subscription fee and if they stop paying, they will lose access to the software proprietary file formats,[38][39] which is not backward-compatible with the Creative Suite[40][41] (Adobe admitted that this is a valid concern[42]). Individual subscribers must have an Internet connection[43] to download the software and to use the 2 GB of provided storage space (or the additionally purchased 20 GB[44]), and must validate the license monthly.[45]
Adobe's decision to make the subscription service the only sales route for its creative software was met with strong criticism[46][47] (see Creative Cloud controversy). Several online articles began offering replacements of Photoshop, Illustrator, and other programs, with free software such as GIMP[48][49] and Inkscape or competing products such as CorelDRAW,[50] PaintShop Pro,[51] and Pixelmator[52] directly offering alternatives.
In addition to many of the products formerly part of the Creative Suite (one product, Fireworks, was announced as having reached the end of its development cycle),[53] Creative Cloud also offers subscription-exclusive products such as Adobe Muse[54] and the Adobe Edge family,[54] Web-based file and website hosting, Typekit fonts, and access to the Behance social media platform.[37] The new CC versions of their applications, and the full launch of the updated Creative Cloud service, was announced for June 17, 2013. New versions with major feature updates have been released regularly, with a refresh of the file formats occurring in October 2014. Adobe also announced that it would continue to offer bug fixes for the CS6 products so that they will continue to run on the next versions of Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X
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