What is the difference CS6 & CC Versions?

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I have Adobe cc acc. In my business computer and on my home computer I use the last version of Cs6 Creative Production suite that was purchased outright. I am insulted that my home computer with Cs6 must be subject to ongoing varification requests and suggestions of reloading software which is inconvienent and time consuming. 

These ongoing provacations by Adobe need to be checked, maybe even tested by class action or protest.

Can I use a CS6 textbook to teach Creative Cloud?

I'm having trouble finding good Adobe textbooks that combine apps (PS/Ill/InD, Premiere/Audition/AE, or Animate/AE) but are specific to CC...

Example: Video Collection Revealed

ISBN-13: 978-1133815006,

ISBN-10:1133815006

This doesn't answer the question which is: what's the difference between the versions?  I have this question also.

Beware if you have a slow internet connection when using CC. It will take ages to do any productive work, compared with the CS version.

This thread is a bit old, but there have been some recent responses and I feel the subject deserves ongoing discussion.

I would like to start by saying that whether it’s in a classroom or some other type of self-learning, knowing at least the basic history of an application, the company and their role in the industry is important in the big picture scheme. I was late to the game and didn’t start learning HTML and related internet technologies until 2001. But it was still early enough that design and development tools were still young and evolving rapidly. Classroom learning wasn’t worthless, but much of what was taught had changed or even become obsolete by the time the final exams were given. Much has changed in the last fifteen years, but at least now things have settled down into more stable and predictable processes and methods.

Listing a comparison chart between CS6 versions and CC versions is valid, but there is more to it than just new or different features. CC represents, or at least is supposed to, represent a new way of doing things. Whether the new ways are better or not is largely subjective, but certain things do take hold and become the standard, and then can’t be avoided. That’s where the history comes in, to help appreciate these new ways and to help determine if they indeed are better or just repackaging the old ways.

There are many examples one can look to help understand this evolution. Let’s look at search engine optimization: I spent a lot of time learning the basics and implementing SEO techniques of certain sites that I launched. But I often see things that I don’t understand how they work or why they are used. For example, I did a Google search on a topic where this forum thread came up as a result. Now, if I landed on this thread by browsing the forums and selecting the discussion, I could probably easily parse the URL. The URL that led me here from Google contains 941 characters. It’s obviously some advanced and complex tracking techniques used by Google and/or Adobe. But it represents one more thing to take note of at the very least, evaluate it at some point and discover whether it’s something that I will eventually have to know just to keep up with the basics of SEO.

There are those of us who build web site and internet applications using programs and tools created by others. I have used and relied on third-party Dreamweaver extensions for both server- and client-side functionality. I use jQuery and other JavaScript libraries. Hats off to those on the cutting edge who develop those extensions and write the JavaScript. And to the open source community that for better or worse, have provided even more options through applications like Joomla and WordPress.

And there’s another major difference between the “legacy” CS programs and the new CC programs. The focus has shifted from server-side scripting ad middleware to client-side libraries. Dreamweaver server behaviors are now deprecated (if not totally eliminated altogether by now). Much has already been said about Adobe’s decision and rationale for this so I won’t rehash that here. At first, it seemed that the CC subscription model was necessary just for business reasons. Major version upgrades for the CS programs came out yearly and even at upgrade pricing were expensive. Some applications peaked with CS4 and others like Dreamweaver, with CS6 as HTML 5 became the standard. I only speculate here, that sales dropped off as the continuing upgrades became cost prohibitive and just plain unnecessary. I even wonder to what degree these “new ways of doing things” with CC programs are also another way to attract and retain customers. I don’t think it’s a major revelation that the practice of incremental upgrades is just the way of the industry. Personally, I believe it’s a necessary evil, but the practice has gone too far at time (Still, IMO). All the major players have taken part. Microsoft, since Windows 95. Apple. Google. Then, each OS of application upgrade seemed to need more resources and the cycle continued. Often, it is true that upgrades that aren’t really needed can be skipped, and often are – but the psychological influence of wanting the latest and greatest is rather powerful and hard to resist. Apple proved this – while it can be argued that their products actually were superior, it was the marketing the culture they established that was the primary draw. This was especially true with the release of the iPhone and the new yearly models. But even when we decide we don’t need to upgrade, we fine that our clients and vendors have, and we then have to upgrade, or lose the business.

I have/had several sites created in legacy middleware that still required maintenance and need the functionality of certain extensions. Financially unable to upgrade the extensions to CC versions, I was able to convert MXP to ZXP and install them using the CC EM. I got error messages and the extensions did not appear in the list – however, they actually did install and worked in DW CC, minus some of the functionality. This went on for several months until one of the find people here pointed out that CS6 was an option in CC! So I do have both versions of DW and PS installed and use both depending on the need. And there is no conflict; both versions peacefully co-exist on my system. It would be nice to be able save a backup copy of the CS6 installers for when they are finally relegated to the obsolete bin from the legacy pile.

So despite my complaints, I do like the CC program. I use mostly DW and PS, and now that I have a 64 bit system, I can fire up video editing again. My interest in Flash has waned, and the other programs are just sitting there waiting for me to dig into. With these tools and the ability to build mobile apps, I had thought this would be the next logical step for web developers, but I’m not seeing this. It seems that apps are still mostly created by software engineers and web people have moved on to the newer internet technologies. And now with CC 2015 versions out, I will probably upgrade my 2014 versions – and check out the new features. I think the next thing on my list is getting into the “portfolio” mobile apps, created publications with InDesign or maybe a simple app based on Dreamweaver. And while I’m not holding my breath, it really would be nice to create iOS apps without actually needed a MAC to create the app installation file. But I suppose I wouldn’t blame them for wanting to hold on to something exclusively – after all, the relented and eventually allowed apps created by third-party development tools into the app store (at first, they only allowed apps developed by the Apple SDK.

  Thanks for reading if you have gotten this far. I think it’s time I launch a blog if I keep writing such long forum posts. Even my emails are wordy. I come from the baby boom, reading generation and while I appreciate the brevity of Twitter and facebook status updates, I would like to see the return to the written word wherever it may fit into the electronic ecosystem.

Hello,

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there an option to have CS6 also if one subscribed to CC?

Now I'm confused.

I pay the monthly CC fee ($53.61 now), but on my workstation all my programs say CS6. Is this correct? I got CS6 when I registered for CC. I still have CS4 Master Collection.

Not sure what I'm running anymore. My account says I have a Creative Cloud membership. Am I just not taking advantage the "Cloud" features?

Customer support couldn't help me because their "systems" were down. Ironic.

Just to give the Adobe folks more evidence of the user experience, want to say I am having a similar issue in that I bought CC, somehow have CS6 installed, and now am running across issues in updating CC, but not in updating CS6 (which I don't think I own--kind of confused now.)

I think it was not clear on install of CC that one should probably uninstall whatever CS# you had...

Nor is it clear why my installs of CC are "failing."  It just says "update failed, contact customer support." My subscription is up to date, so it isn't that. Kind of feeling like an abandoned user and that I now have to figure out the user experience of installing the product I'm renting every month. Not the best feeling!

One notable thing, they removed the bone tool from CC.....so no more kinematics.

annoying since the school where im taking a flash class, just for the experience not for any professional expectation, uses cs6.... figured CC would be able to do everything if not more than the "older" version.

Major let down..... back to sitting in loud computer labs to do assignments 

So yeah, i know this reply is late but for anyone else wondering if they should upgrade.... if you use bones DONT it will just convert all your existing ones to keyframes.

Good thing i only downloaded the trial(Which btw was suppose to be a cs6 trial.....so apparently they are really trying to get away from it )... or i'd be annoyed even more.