Originally Posted By: Garak
I still prefer to have the software "local," as it were. I guess it's going to take me a while to get used to the change. Of course, I'm not comfortable with the change for all things. I do have a PC and not a dumb terminal for a reason.
I have refused to "jump ship" to Adobe Creative Cloud and Office 365 for this very reason.
Fortunately, Microsoft still makes the "real thing" for those of us who prefer actually owning our software. Unfortunately, they've neglected the Mac users the past few years with Office 2011 being the official current version until a few months ago and lacking a lot of feature parity with the Windows equivalent. I've used some Beta versions of 2016(which is coming in both Windows and Mac versions) and it seems to have decent feature parity. Unfortunately, it requires OS X 10.10 or later, which I stubbornly refuse to use as my main OS.
Adobe has always treated Mac users well with-if anything-the Windows versions sometimes lacking features of their Mac equivalents. They've also always gone the extra mile with architecture optimization-the performance of CS4 even on a relatively slow spec G4 still amazes me. Unfortunately, with CC being the norm, CS6 is where the road ends for me with Adobe.