Adobe CEO: We're off to a good start with subscriptions (Q&A)
Shantanu Narayen, chief executive of Adobe Systems, just took a big step through a difficult transition.
The company is moving from selling perpetual licenses to Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, and other members of the Creative Suite to selling the $50-per-month Creative Cloud subscription that grants access to the whole collection and to some online services. There's plenty of disgruntlement from customers who prefer the old sales approach, which now only works for the old CS6 incarnation of Adobe's software, but Adobe showed on Tuesday that there's significant support for the new way, too.
That support came in … Read more