> But I assume the application side of this software will live on a server somewhere and you may only access via a web browser or some kind of client applicatio

> But I assume the application side of this software will live on a server somewhere and you may only access via a web browser or some kind of client application. I'd argue that's not as simple a change to turn around - not without doing a lot of fundamental plumbing into a very heterogenous set of grody old codebases - even if they do successfully end up booting out the cobwebs in PS and AI, what about replicating that effort in the ever-so-slightly different ID? And then for the Macromedia products? So I don't suspect they'll do anything radically different with this implementation of cloud software - they'll just push the Adobe Updater to the fore. (Although I shouldn't be expecting it: if they do something else that's more invasive then I'll have brought it on myself...) The more interesting question is whether the pirates'll bother to keep up with the updates at all - and if they can't, what that could possibly mean for Adobe.