Turns out all of those complaints are wrong. Within minutes of Adobe announcing the new Creative Cloud, the rants were already flooding my Twitter stream with complaints about being forced to use Web-based apps, needing always-on Internet connections, and losing all your files when your subscription expires. Since that isn't what happened, it's time to bone up on our Creative Cloud facts. Until Monday, there was still speculation that Creative Suite 7 would be unveiled and that users would have the option of choosing between perpetual and subscription licensing, just as they could with Creative Suite 6. It was clear Adobe wanted to push its customers into the subscription model, but I wasn't expecting the change to come so quickly. It was first introduced along side Creative Suite 6 last year as an alternative to traditional perpetual licensing, and this year replaces Creative Suite all together. Get ready for subscription software, because that's where Adobe is taking usĬreative Cloud is Adobe's subscription license model for its professional Mac and Windows content creation and editing applications the familiar Adobe apps, like Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Premiere, Flash, and Acrobat. We decided to cut through the noise and get the straight answers because you can't decide if Creative Cloud (CC) is right for you without good information. That was promptly followed by wailing, gnashing of teeth, the falling of the sky, and plenty of misconceptions spread as fact. Adobe announced on Monday that Creative Suite is no more and that moving forward Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and the rest of the company's professional content creation apps are available only as part of Creative Cloud.

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