If the new licensing scheme was intended to prevent piracy, it didn’t work. Adobe’s official reasoning is that it was too costly to maintain both a disk-and-update system and the cloud versions-but excuse me if I fail to shed a tear for the company that reported record profits in 2012 despite a sluggish economy and the steady decline of Flash. Stop paying your monthly fee and you'll lose access to the programs you were paying for. With the newest Creative Cloud release, Adobe has completely done away with the old own-and-upgrade path, forcing users to the rental scheme in which they no longer own their software.
But most professionals and companies don’t upgrade to every new version-since Adobe, like most developers, let you pay to upgrade within a few versions, you could stay up to date while owning your software at a lower cost if you were willing to do without every new release.
For people without an existing license, that was definitely true for the short term. For a certain cost-per-month with no buy-in fee, you could pay to use Photoshop or other Adobe applications on a rental basis, logging in every month to activate the software for the coming month.Ĭost-wise, Adobe liked to create the impression that it was cheaper.
Introduced with version CS6, the license initially debuted alongside the traditional upgrade path and Adobe's respective disk or disk image-based installers. There are probably a lot of you reading this who never actually got to look at the feature set of Photoshop CC because Adobe’s Creative Cloud licensing made it all a non-starter. It’s all a pretty nasty mess from where I’m sitting. If you rent the Creative Cloud Master Collection, that’s a lot of individual uninstallers to run. You have to run individual uninstallers from within your respective app folders or the central Programs and Features control panel on Windows. الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا - اللغة العربيةWhat’s worse, the uninstall process is confusing since there are no uninstallation options in the CC menu. Southeast Asia (Includes Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) - English Selecting a region changes the language and/or content on. Operating System upgrades for the latest version of appĮnhancements to Adobe products to optimize them to new operating systems.Īdobe optimizes apps to newer operating systems as needed until the EOS date.Ī security vulnerability that an attacker could exploit to break into a user’s computer.Īdobe makes reasonable efforts to address security issues in EOL products through the warranty or support period, whichever is later. Online documentation, installers, and community support for product-related questions. Support provided by Adobe via online chat, phone, or email for support related to download, activation, and payment.
Installers are not available for download on .Īny online services and support are no longer available.Īll supporting services that require ongoing maintenance are removed.
Product is no longer sold on or by third-party stores. Typically sent at least 12 months before End of sale. Notification sent to customers, channel partners, and affected parties that the product will no longer be sold, supported, or available for download.