Adobe Launches Public Beta of Website Design Program 'Muse', Likely to Later Exist as Subscription-Only

Hot off the heels of announcing pricing in the spring for a form of rental for their popular CS design software packages, Adobe looks to be further branching out into subscription models. Yesterday, the company launched a public beta of “Muse,” a codename for a product to be released sometime early next year, which sets to “dumb down” (as ZDnet puts it) the creation of websites by making the process visually-based, instead of requiring designers to learn to write code.