Adobe Announces Important Changes To Upgrade Policy
By: Mike Castaldi
November 11
Historically, Adobe has been pretty lenient with their upgrade policy. Even with Creative Suite CS5.5, they allow users to upgrade from versions all the way back to CS2 (released in April 2005). This week, Adobe announced changes to their upgrade policy. Effective with Creative Suite CS6, users will only be able to upgrade from 1 version back. That is to say users must be on CS5 or CS5.5 in order to qualify for upgrade pricing to CS6. Considering that when CS6 is likely to be released, CS5 will be over two years old I don’t find this terribly unreasonable. In fact most large software companies, i.e. Microsoft, Apple, etc have moved away from upgrades altogether. You simply buy the next version. Yes, Creative Suite (even the upgrade) is not inexpensive. But I believe that part of being a professional is keeping your tools and skills maintained & up to date.
Adobe is trying to make it easier, since they’re giving a 20% discount through the end of 2011.
I think it’s worth mentioning that CS5 and CS5.5 both require Macs with Intel processors (won’t run on G5s) and OSX v10.5.8 or later.
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