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Adobe kills Creative Suite – all future features online only

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:33 EDT

Demos hardware magic wand and Project Napoleon Adobe had been expected to demo Creative Suite 7 at its MAX conference down in smoky Los Angeles on Monday, but instead announced there'll be no more versions of its boxed software and that the Creative Suite brand will cease to exist. All CS apps updates will only be added to its Creative Cloud suite, and Adobe showed off some new tools to tempt its software stick-in-the-muds online.…

Adobe moves flagship Photoshop, Illustrator software to cloud

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:33 EDT

Subscription model will replace Creative Suite boxed software with Creative Cloud subscription for $74.99 on a monthly basis and $49.99 per month for an annual plan

Adobe shifts to subscriptions for software package (Update)

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:33 EDT

Adobe says it is moving to an online subscription-based model for the software package it sells to designers, Web developers, video editors and other creative professionals.

Adobe’s Creative Suite is dead, long live the Creative Cloud

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:33 EDT

Adobe's Creative Cloud, once optional, is now the only way to get access to the latest versions of the company's software. Adobe Adobe's Creative Suite and the applications that make it up—Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Premiere, and a host of others—have been staples of many professional toolboxes for almost a decade now. The full suite itself has been available since September of 2003, and many of its applications have a history that reach back even further. Today at its MAX conference, however, Adobe announced a major shift in strategy for the software: boxed versions, along with their perpetual licenses, will no longer be available for any Adobe software newer than CS6. Going forward, subscribing to Adobe's Creative Cloud service will be the only way to upgrade your software. As with the boxed versions of the software, Adobe offers several different pricing options for Creative Cloud subscriptions: new users can buy a subscription at $50 a month with an annual commitment (or $75 month-to-month), which gets you access to the full suite of software plus, all of Adobe's Edge services, 20GB of cloud storage. Users of Creative Suite versions 3 to 5.5 can get their first year of service at a reduced rate of $30 a month for the first year, while current CS6 users can subscribe for $20 a month for the first year. For individuals, these subscriptions buy you the right to use the software on up to two different computers, same as the boxed versions. If you only need an individual application, you can subscribe to those for $20 a month with an annual commitment (or $30 month-to-month), which also gets you that 20GB of cloud storage and access to a limited subset of the online services. As with the complete subscriptions, users of CS3 through CS6 products can get a discounted rate of $10 a month for the first year. Other pricing options are available for teams and users at educational institutions. Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments

Adobe plans to fix Reader flaw, just not now

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:33 EDT

When you produce two wildly popular platforms like Flash and Reader then you can expect to be targeted by those who wish to exploit them for gain. Such is the case for Adobe, the developer behind both applications. The company is a constant target for security exploits and malware, with the vast majority of "update Flash" pop-ups on the web being fakes that lead unsuspecting customers to a bad end. The most recent is a flaw in Reader, discovered by McAfee researcher Haifei Li. To be fair to Adobe, this one is much less of a problem than some previously discovered. Li writes that "we successfully identified that the [PDF] samples are exploiting an unpatched security issue in every version of Adobe Reader including the latest 'sandboxed' Reader XI (11.0.2)". In concept, when a specific PDF JavaScript API is called with the first parameter set as a UNC-located resource, Adobe Reader can access that UNC resource. However, this action is normally blocked and creates a warning dialogue which is asks for permission. No problem. However, as Li explains, "the danger is that if the second parameter is provided with a special value, it changes the API’s behavior. In this situation, if the UNC resource exists, we see the warning dialog. However, if the UNC resource does not exist, the warning dialog will not appear even though the TCP traffic has already gone". McAfee, while saying that it does not consider this to be a major issue, does consider it a security vulnerability. The company has detected some PDF samples in the wild that are exploiting this issue. "Our investigation shows that the samples were made and delivered by an 'email tracking service' provider", Li writes. And what about the Adobe response? The company briefly acknowledges this latest flaw, telling us "Adobe is aware of reports of a low severity information leakage issue described in a recent advisory. A user’s IP address and timestamp could be exposed when opening a specially crafted PDF. This issue will be resolved in the next scheduled releases (May 14) of Adobe Reader and Acrobat". The problem is, indeed, not a major threat, but the word is now out there, which can potentially compound the problem. Common sense should tell customers to not click on email attachments from unknown sources, or even from friends, if the file in unexpected. A better solution is to use a different PDF app -- both Foxit and Nitro are free, and much less targeted. Photo Credit: Cartoonresource/Shutterstock

Creative Cloud is Adobe's future (and yours, too)

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:33 EDT

No one rightly can accuse Adobe of playing the ostrich, digging in and pretending the cloud isn't changing the market for desktop software. The developer of popular publishing tools like InDesign and Photoshop takes huge risks that will either make or break future revenue. A year ago, Adobe unveiled the Creative Cloud subscription service. Today, in Los Angeles, the company rebranded CS suite as CC and moved all future features, updates and versions to the cloud subscription service. You want new Photoshop, Adobe will take your money monthly, baby. I cannot understate the risk taken here, as Adobe delivers double-whammy to customers. Changing an iconic brand is trouble enough -- how people pay and what for, even more so. But the CC (for Creative Cloud) also demarks change, break from the old model for the new. With risks come rewards. June Wedding New versions of Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere Pro will be available in June, but only as part of Creative Cloud. Users pay a monthly subscription fee rather than purchase software upfront. That means shelling out less and getting more for it, at least initially, and sacrificing some usage rights in the process. Buying software gets you a perpetual license. Subscription means the software deactivates after you stop paying, ending your rights to use the applications. Standard pricing is $49.99 per month, which provides access to most Adobe software. You cannot buy the new CC versions in stores; subscribe and download instead. Student and teacher monthly pricing is $19.99, which is the same for single apps. Existing individual customers of CS3 or later pay $29.99 and business ones $39.99. CS6 users get in for $19.99 per month. A team option is $69.99 per month, or $39.99 for existing customers. If you qualify as existing, the discounted offer ends July 31. I count 34 products currently available for the monthly fee -- everything from Acrobat to Flash, Illustrator, Lightroom, Photoshop Touch and Premiere. Adobe will continue to sell and update Creative Suite 6, but new features go to Creative Cloud. So this is a forced migration to the subscription service, if you want the new thing. I wondered a year ago if the scheme might affect Adobe revenue, since Creative Suite costs so much more upfront. Nope. Looked at differently, laws of volume work greatly to Adobe's advantage if monthly payments open up a huge number of students, sole-proprietorships and small businesses to buy into Creative Suite who otherwise couldn't justify the expense -- and that appears to be the case so far. The scheme also will pull forward customers running older CS versions, who either can't afford or don't see value paying for new applications, to upgrade by taking a subscription. They no longer have a choice, other than switching. Marriage Bliss The scheme also solves a big problem for Adobe, and it's commonplace among big software publishers: New features come out too slowly, and when they do, many customers don't get them right away because they want to maximize their investment in older software. "Our customers will no longer have to wait 18 to 24 months to access new Photoshop innovation", Winston Hendrickson, Adobe vice president, asserts. "When a new Photoshop feature is ready, whether it’s the next Healing Brush or something as mind-blowing as Content Aware Fill, we’ll deliver it via Creative Cloud". Adobe releases updates as they're ready, and all customers get them immediately. Subscriptions smooth out Adobe revenue, too. Monthly pays are a sure thing for the contract period and something sustainable conceptually longer. Consider someone purchasing CS6 Design & Web Premium, which includes Acrobat X, Bridge, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash Pro, InDesign, Illustrator, Media Encoder and Photoshop. Adobe sells the suite for $1,899, with perpetual licensing. For $49.99 per month, a subscriber gets these applications and another 23. That's $599.98 for a year, or less than what Adobe sells Photoshop CS6 ($699; $999, Extended) direct. The three-year cost ($1,799.64) is still less than the suite, and Adobe keeps subscriber software up-to-date. The deal is sweeter, if taking advantage of the $29.99/month promotion, which applies to the first year. Cost is $359.98, or less than Dreamweaver CS6 ($359), for first 12 months or $1,559.74 after 3 years. The point: Adobe may point a gun to your head, so to speak, but the bang is more for your buck, with less outlay up front to get any of the applications and more of them available over time. Photo Credit: Galushko Sergey/Shutterstock

Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:33 EDT

First time accepted submitter JDG1980 writes "According to CNET and various other sources, CS6 will be the last version of Adobe's Creative Suite that will be sold in the traditional manner. All future versions will be available by subscription only, through Adobe's so-called 'Creative Cloud' service. This means that before too long, anyone who wants an up-to-date version of Photoshop won't be able to buy it – they will have to pay $50 per month (minimum subscription term: one year). Can Adobe complete the switch to subscription-only, or will the backlash be too great? Will this finally spur the creation of a real competitor to Photoshop?" Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Pwn2Own: IE10, Firefox, Chrome, Reader, Java hacks land $500k

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:16:46 EST

Google's Chrome OS withstands attack in security contest It's back to the drawing board for coders at Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Mozilla, and Oracle after entrants in the annual Pwn2Own contest waltzed off with over half a million dollars in prizes for exploiting security holes in popular software.…

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Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:16:46 EST

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Pwn2Own carnage continues as exploits take down Adobe Reader, Flash

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:16:46 EST

Tannoy Thursday was another grim day for Internet security as contestants at the Pwn2Own hacker competition exploited flaws in Adobe's Reader and Flash programs, allowing them to take full control of the computers they ran on. Oracle's Java was also, once again, felled. The exploits, which fetched more than $160,000 in prizes, were impressive because they pierced a wall of defenses erected by some of the brightest minds in the field of software engineering. Those defenses included an anti-exploit "sandbox," which Adobe engineers added to Reader in 2010 and have been improving ever since. The mechanism isolates Web content in a restricted container that's sealed off from sensitive operating-system functions, such as writing files to disk or making system changes. Until last month, no active attack had successfully bypassed the Reader sandbox protection. On Thursday, the defense suffered another significant blow when George Hotz, who hacked Sony's PlayStation 3 in 2010 at age 21, was also able to circumvent the Reader sandbox. The feat won him $70,000. Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments