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I won't be going with subscription as it stands, even at education rates it's prohibitively expensive for occasional, non business use. I would say also for the non corporate business user too. Most only upgrade every couple of versions at the most. Which is probably what has triggered this 'idea' of Adobie's.
The general development of getting data and software off users computers onto remote servers, using the 'cloud' smokescreen/ Removing CD/DVD drives is just a small step down the same road to downloaded everything.
What may force upgrades is changes in new Operating Systems, That was what forced me to go from CS2 to CS5, CS2 did all I needed, but wouldn't run on the newer OS's after Snow Leopard. Whatever comes after OS 10.9 may change the game again.
There is one misconception, the 'cloud' based software does not require the computer to be connected continually to the internet, nor for the verification process to take vast amounts if bandwidth. I think you can work for about four months without internet connection before the software even mentions it.
It remains to be seen if this is a good business model for Adobe, one thing for sure, others will be watching very closely. If Adobe pull it off M$ will be close on their heels.
Interesting times.
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Robert.