Adobe Launches Creative Suite 6
Adobe has announced Creative Suite 6. The CS6 product line includes new releases of Photoshop, InDesign, lllustrator, Dreamweaver, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash Professional and other products as well as four suite versions, Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium; Creative Suite 6 Design Standard; Creative Suite 6 Production Premium; and Creative Suite 6 Master Collection. Adobe also debuts two new video-related software packages, Prelude and SpeedGrade.
Adobe has announced that its Creative Cloud subscription service—widely expected to be available simultaneously with CS6—will now be released on May 11.
Creative Suite 6 is a killer release with hundreds of new capabilities rolling up to four focus areas:
- Application Performance. The Mercury performance work we started a couple years ago has now made its way to our imaging, video and illustration tools.
- Enhanced User Interface. Our tools are increasingly enabling direct, on-canvas editing of your content.
- Efficient development for Multiple Devices. Our tools are taking a practical approach to creating responsive content, so your web sites or apps look great regardless of the device or orientation they’re viewed in.
- Adobe’s unique secret sauce. The stuff that make things previously impossible suddenly possible.
Estimated street price for the suites is US$2,599 for CS6 Master Collection, US$1,899 for CS6 Production Premium, US$1,899 for CS6 Design & Web Premium, and US$1,299 for CS6 Design Standard. Upgrade and education pricing as well as volume licensing are available.
The Death Of Mobile Flash
Apple’s Steve Jobs has long predicted the death of Flash on mobile and now it is coming true.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen previously took a jab at Apple by saying: “Anyone who wants to design for a multi-platform world is our customer. Apple would like to keep it closed and proprietary. Well, let the games begin.”
Can’t he see HTML5 will dominate web animation in the future? … and the death of Flash is now here. Adobe has stopped development of Flash Player for mobile browsers. The main issue for Adobe is that, smartphone makers are going towards HTML5.
Adobe Buries Flash With Edge
Adobe Systems is offering an early preview version of Adobe Edge, an HTML5 design tool due to the on the way out Adobe Flash. Apple called it. Adobe Flash is a dying elephant. The Edge preview product now is available at the Adobe Labs site.
Edge is a new web development tool from Adobe that makes it easy to create animations and interactive websites with HTML5.
Adobe Patches Flash Zero-Day
Adobe patched zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player. The flaw was being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks using a malicious Web page or Flash (SWF) file embedded within a Microsoft Word (DOC) or Excel (XLS) file attachment.
Adobe recommends users of Adobe Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and earlier versions (Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.25 and earlier versions for Chrome users) for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris update to Adobe Flash Player 10.2.159.1 (Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.27 for Chrome users). Adobe recommends users of Adobe AIR 2.6.19120 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and Linux update to Adobe AIR 2.6.19140. Adobe expects to make available an update for Adobe Flash Player 10.2.156.12 and earlier versions for Android no later than the week of April 25, 2011.
Adobe Taunt Apple: Let the Games Begin
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen took a jab at Apple by saying: “Anyone who wants to design for a multi-platform world is our customer. Apple would like to keep it closed and proprietary. Well, let the games begin.”
Can’t he see HTML5 will dominate web animation in the future? … and the death of Flash.
Apple Drops Flash On New Macs
Apple will no longer pre-install Adobe Flash on any of their products from now on. The latest MacBook Air does not have Flash player preinstalled.
If you need it, go to Adobe to download the Flash player. It is good to see Apple going down this path as users will soon no longer need Flash once HTML5 becomes standard on all major browser (still waiting for IE9).
Adobe Zero-day PDF Exploit Dangerous
The latest threat from Adobe is the zero-day PDF exploit, which comes disguised as a golf lesson, can do pretty much anything. It can download malicious bots; it can load keystroke-tracking software, and more. The exploit bypasses two important defenses that Microsoft erected to protect Windows, ASLR (address space layout randomization) and DEP (date execution prevention).
From Adobe:
A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, and Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh. This vulnerability (CVE-2010-2883) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.
Adobe Moved On From Apple
Adobe has moved on from being shunned by Apple. This is what CEO Shantanu Narayen said during an interview by Telegraph:
Apple made some statements about the suitability of our technology for mobile devices. I think we’ve proven that the technology is not only suitable but it actually significantly enhances the value on these mobile devices. They’ve chosen to keep their system closed and we’d rather work with partners who are interested in working with us. We believe in open systems. We believe in the power of the internet and in customers making choices and I think a lot of the controversy was about their decision at that point. They’ve made their choice. We’ve made ours and we’ve moved on. It’s a business decision. With the energy and innovation that our company has, we’d rather focus on people who want to deliver the best experience with Flash and there are so many of them.
Steve Jobs Says I Told You So: Adobe Found Critical Flaw In Flash
Apple has previously posted a memo from Steve Jobs regarding Flash. In a nutshell, the Apple CEO says Flash is unreliability, insecure and has low performance. And he did not want developers to use Flash tools to develop sub-standard iPhone, iPad apps.
Now Adobe finally revealed that there is a critical flaw in Flash. The critical vulnerability could let attackers take control of people’s computers. No official patch to fix the problem yet.
Apparently Google also hates flash. From SFGate: Google, at the end of the day, also hates Flash. Running an all flash environment is SEO death. Flash websites are simply too complicated for Google’s spiders to actually understand. Google sees the internet primarily in text – flash, and other scripts are ignored.
Will we see the end of Flash soon? We think so, just like DOS, floppy disks and cassette tapes.
Apple Steve Jobs Reveals Adobe Cast The First Stone On Flash Fiasco
Apple CEO Steve Jobs now revealed that he did not begin the long-running feud with Adobe over Flash. He only did so when Adobe started to raise the stink.
Steve Jobs said: We didn’t start off to have a war with Flash, or anything else. We just made a technical decision that we weren’t gonna put the energy into getting Flash on our platform. We told Adobe, if you ever have this thing running fast, let us know, which they never did. It wasn’t until we shipped the iPad and it didn’t use Flash that Adobe started to raise a stink about it.
Steve also declared the end of the post PC era with the iPad/tablet overtaking PCs.
Apple has previously posted a memo from Steve Jobs regarding Flash. In a nutshell, the Apple CEO says Flash is unreliability, insecure and has low performance. And he did not want developers to use Flash tools to develop sub-standard iPhone, iPad apps.
Steve said: Flash was created during the PC era—for PCs and mice. The mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open Web standards—all areas where Flash falls short. Adobe should focus more on creating tools for the future and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
Read the full memo after the jump:
