Chapter Eleven. Using the CS Live Services

When you buy a new car, the moment you drive it off the dealer’s lot, it begins to depreciate in value. Computer software and cars are quite different, of course, but technology changes quickly. By the time a new version of the Creative Suite is mastered to discs, reproduced, packaged, and shipped, it can be argued that what was the best possible version when the engineers did their final testing and the product was deemed “final” might not meet a need that arose between the software’s ship date and the time you upgrade. Online updates have made keeping software current much easier and more immediate, but there are several things that the Web and cloud-based computing can do that software installed ...

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