Just entered into my Inbox:
subject: Adobe faces criticism for change of upgrade policy
Photoshop trainer and author Scott Kelby has published an ‘open
letter’ to Adobe requesting it re-thinks its product upgrade policy.
The company, in a recent blog post about its ‘Creative Cloud’ online
computing service, revealed that it will only allow owners of the most
recent versions of Photoshop and Creative Suite to upgrade to the CS6
versions, when they become available. This moves away from its
traditional position of allowing owners of the previous three versions
a discounted upgrade. The company is offering a 20% discount for these
owners to bring themselves up-to-date in time for the policy change.
The move, seemingly aimed at encouraging users to move to the monthly
license for the cloud service, rather than buying a ‘perpetual
license,’ will mean owners of Photoshop CS3 who might have expected to
have the option of upgrading to CS6 will now have to first pay
$159/£127/€199 (ex. tax) to move to version CS5. Users of the
comprehensive ‘Creative Suite Master Collection CS3’ will face a
rather more daunting $1,119/£985/€1279 (ex. tax) bill to put
themselves in the position to receive a discounted upgrade to the CS6
version. Kelby’s letter acknowledges there may be a business case for
the change in policy but asks Adobe to delay the policy change until
CS7, so that users have more time to make an informed decision about
their upgrade options. The 20% discount on upgrade prices is valid
until December 31st 2011.
<http://www.dpreview.com/news/2011/11/22/AdobeUpgradeCriticism>
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:12 AM, WayneS <olympus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Seems a lot of mis-information is going around.
>
> WayneS
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