Unofficial rule of thumb is about 18 month product cycle. Give or take.
YrbkMgr, do you think that it’ll still be the case, now that they are sold in suites?
I’d say that the next version should not be out soon, just by looking the books about Photoshop by shipping date on Amazon… but they tell you some stuff about other Adobe programs… 😉
Pierre,
do you think that it’ll still be the case, now that they are sold in suites?
I don’t KNOW anything. But if you look at history, it turns out to be around every 18 months. I don’t think any company the size of Adobe can survive on a cycle longer than that – they need the revenues, mostly for Wall Street.
But again, I don’t really know anything.
Yes, I know that we don’t know… It was just that other companies seem to upgrade their suite every year… wait and see!
If the Suite is being upgraded annually, that would mean this fall, and surely some word of it would have leaked out.
According to <that search engine everyone uses> there is a beta going around, which means it’ll be out within the next year or two. There are also plenty of warnings that a file called "Adobe Photoshop 9 full.exe" is a virus. I’m not that curious, or dumb.
Generally when a new version of a mature product ships, most older features don’t change all that much (okay, maybe a few keystrokes), so the training you’ve had will still apply. It would be a poor marketing idea to change everything with each new release, just to make it different.
In the case of InDesign, however, each new release has been tremendously different from the previous–though still familiar. It’s a quickly-developing, dynamic product. Maybe after a couple more versions it will settle-down to simply adding new features.
Yes, Photoshop is usually pretty much the same, but there are 1/2 dozen or so new/major things. Anyway, when exactly did CS come out?
They introduced Activation on September 29, 2003. The product shipped within a couple of weeks of that date.
now that they are sold in suites?
More like MEN in suit(e)s.
A patch for PS 8 would be welcome anytime…like that tile thingy that really needs to be corrected.
