Adobe Creative Suite 6 is shipping this week, (May 8th 2012). Along with a passel of new features in the Creative Suite standbys (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks) there are two new products to keep your eyes on: Adobe Edge and Adobe Muse.
Adobe Edge outputs HTML 5, CSS3 and Javascript (the group often just abbreviated to HTML5) the technology that is touted by some as the replacement to Flash for both simple animations (note the word "simple") and interactive productions for the web.
Adobe Muse is presented as a product for creating web site without having to write code or even look at the code (or presumably having any knowledge of HTML and CSS).
However, if you look for Edge and Muse in any of the Creative Suite bundles (Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium suites) you wont find them there, not even in the "Master Collection".
No, Muse and Edge will only be available in the "Creative Cloud".
The Creative Cloud is Adobe's subscription based service whereby you pay a monthly fee and have access to all the Creative Suite products and Edge and Muse.
When subscribing to the Creative Cloud you download the product or products that you need to your computer, install them there and work on them there, locally on your computer not on the "cloud"; you just download them from the cloud and pay on a monthly basis.
If you don't pay, they stop working.
Obviously Adobe would like more people to use the Creative Cloud and hence are perhaps enticing people with Edge and Muse.
Note also that Edge and Muse can also be purchased separately outside of the Creative Cloud.
We will be writing more about Muse and Edge in the near future.
