Forbes Online is reporting today that Adobe will not be releasing its new version of the Creative Suite (CS3) until the middle of next year.
In the article, Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe said, “Acrobat is coming in the fourth quarter of 2006. [Design software package] Creative Suite 3 will be introduced in the second quarter of 2007. Acrobat will take advantage of the Macromedia assets. And you’ll see a lot of activity in the CS3 launch. There will be a lot of integration between [Macromedia] products and [Adobe] products as part of those offerings. By the time we launch CS3, the value of the two companies will be clear.”
So, the bad part of this is that we may have to wait until June of 2007 for the next version of Photoshop. That sucks. The good news is that Adobe will be releasing LightRoom sometime in the Fall. This program should keep us digital photographers busy until CS3 comes out next year. The cry-baby part of this is…. Why do we have to wait so long!? I want CS3 NOW!!!!!
Anyway, there have been rumors that Adobe would be releasing a version of CS2 that will work on the Intel Macs around the time LightRoom is released. This is just a rumor, but it’s something to hope for.
