Adobe has previously allowed those who purchase the "current" version of a product to receive a FREE upgrade if the NEW version is released within 30 days of purchase.  ....I just upgraded to CS5.5 last week because I noticed they said we were eligable for the free upgrade.

With that in mind, and their recent showcase at NAB, I'd say it's a solid release by the end of this month or the first of next.

^_^

Here's some more news Sharon... it's official — Adobe Creative Suite 6 will be launched on Monday, April 23rd, 2012 — so not too much longer to wait...

After all the sneak peeks they slipped out in recent months, you know it had to be soon

Adobe CS6 release date is 23April2012.

Enjoyyy....

I haven't been successful at locating from where I can download Dreamweaver CS-6 at Adobe.com today (the rumored release day).   Any advice?   If today's not the day, might anyone know when the release day will be, please?

No, actually CS6 is released today!

Because the cloud is an extra component layered together with the traditional applications, there's more involved there and it wasn't ready at the same time.

meh, found it. Not until Friday.

still excited, still annoyed. Oh well. Was really looking forward to spending the week working with it. Good Idea about the demos. Maybe I'll do that.

I think the cloud is great, it's going to make small business a lot more scalable. Keeping the cost down to $79(?) to add another machine for a month makes for really easy addition of employees to cover workload. And $50 for another station as you ramp up and commit for longer is great. I'd like to see the non yearly cost be the same to just remove that extra layer of friction in decision making.

I also think that adobe should, in the future, add a perpetual license lock option. So that as you are using your apps you have a way to impulse buy a perpetual license for a given product. It would especially be cool if that we at a decreasing cost. So that if you did it in the first month of your subscripton it would be more expensive, as you went on it would get less expense. When it hit your sweet spot or thought that you wanted to cancel because you were worried about revenue streams. You could pay extra to version lock your favorites that you really need and then come back and resume your subscription later to get your updates. They could probably figure out a pricing matrix where this would totally be in there favor and certain companies were just paying for version lock and never cancelling subscriptions.

Its all about reducing friction to increase transactions and increase overall revenue.