[Warning: OFF TOPIC RANT]

This argument has been hashed and re-hashed, flogged, and re-flogged, over and over on UHH and countless other sites. Since Adobe went to the Creative Cloud model, several things have happened:

More and more people are using --- yes, USING --- Adobe products. Adobe's stock has appreciated greatly in value.

Accountants at companies that use multiple seats of Adobe products are much happier, because they have a predictable cash expense flow. It's easier to pay a low monthly fee than to upgrade 20 or 200 seats of software all at once! (Imagine being a large printing company or photo lab --- I worked at both --- and every time Adobe came out with a new version, we had to play the game, "Do we upgrade all at once and re-train all our employees, or do we kick the can down the road to the next version?" Continuous updates eliminate that problem!)

Users are happier, now, because their software is always up to date, with the latest bug fixes and improvements.

Users (at least some of them) are happier, because we don't have to shell out $700 or more for a new seat license, or $299 or so for an upgrade to photoshop.

Users are getting better support from Adobe because it is MUCH easier for them to support only the current version of something for the vast majority of their users!

A small, very vocal group of customers who do not understand intellectual property laws and thought they "owned" software for life are screaming like stuck pigs.

The life of a computer is probably five to seven years. Accountants depreciated them in three. The life of an operating system is about five years to Microsoft or Apple. Both update them frequently. MS issues major updates as Service Packs, and minor updates each month on Patch Tuesday. Apple issues a minor upgrade every year or so, with updates about quarterly.

MOST application software has about a two to three year life, before a new version upgrade is available. If software is ever finished, it is ABANDONED. The market demands new and improved, more than stability.

Floppy disks, Zip and Jaz drives, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs are becoming scarce. The distribution model for software is "all online" now. App Stores abound. Because of the ubiquity of high speed Internet service, it is easy to just download a file. Documentation is a PDF file or a YouTube video.

In an ever-changing world like that, doesn't a subscription make sense? We aren't buying hammers, wrenches, or drills that last 40 years. This is complex collections of on-off switch settings that can be changed (fixed, improved, modified to suit new conditions) rapidly. Even cameras are being launched and their firmware upgraded periodically over several years' time.

Apparently, most folks like the new model, since both Microsoft and Adobe have seen increased sales, revenue, and profits with it. It isn't going away. There will be alternatives, but they won't be mainstream.

Well, I haven't decided if I want to upgrade to the new Lightrom Classic. I'm waiting to see if there are any major bugs first. I using Lightroom CC now without any problems, but my question is on my Adobe Creative Cloud drop down at the top of my screen under apps it doesn't give me the option to update to the new Lightroom Classic, just wondering why? From what I've read it should be there. If I click on under apps learn more it takes me to Adobe page where it says Get the update. It this the same?
Thanks

Everyone seems massively confused. If you are or have been using the lightroom combo with photoshop for 9.99 a month, that is now referred to as Lightroom Classic. Lightroom CC is the new product that is also a subscription model and offers cloud base storage plans where your images would reside. Most of us on the subscription who were using Lightroom CC all this time are now using the product they now refer to as Lightroom CC Classic. It is the most botched naming and worst rollout for a new product I have ever seen.

Everyone seems massively confused. If you are or have been using the lightroom combo with photoshop for 9.99 a month, that is now referred to as Lightroom Classic. Lightroom CC is the new product that is also a subscription model and offers cloud base storage plans where your images would reside. Most of us on the subscription who were using Lightroom CC all this time are now using the product they now refer to as Lightroom CC Classic. It is the most botched naming and worst rollout for a new product I have ever seen.

Everyone seems massively confused. If you are or have been using the lightroom combo with photoshop for 9.99 a month, that is now referred to as Lightroom Classic. Lightroom CC is the new product that is also a subscription model and offers cloud base storage plans where your images would reside. Most of us on the subscription who were using Lightroom CC all this time are now using the product they now refer to as Lightroom CC Classic. It is the most botched naming and worst rollout for a new product I have ever seen.

Okay so I'm one of the people who had a problem. Called Adobe support on hold for an hour before someone answered , then the next 2 hour watching a tech who I allowed remote access to screw my computer up only to tell me it's a Windows problem and hang up. I then in my stupidity took it to Staples, who had my computer for a week called me 6 times to say it was fixed it wasn't. Finally I was given the name and number of a fabulous computer repair guy. He came to my house picked up my computer repaired it and returned it in a day and a half. I asked him what the issue was and he told that the problem is that when Adobe writes a software update that they write that update to run on the newest computers, not taking into consideration that some of us are using older computers. The long and short of it is that the problem is in the power settings so he went in and tweaked them to run the new update