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Microsoft and Adobe Executives Meet to Discuss Apple, Possible Merger
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I see an antitrust bat hitting you in the face, Balmer.
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Simple, look at all the complaints on the forums when Adobe was behind in the 64bit release.
now image Microsoft announcing no more adobe products, guess what happens next. An exodus to Windows desktops.
Full Steam Ahead!
This reminds me of the days when they used to charge the public to gather around a train track and watch as two locomotives smashed into each other at full speed.
Mind you're not killed by the twisted pieces of photoshop flying overhead...
This reminds me of the days when they used to charge the public to gather around a train track and watch as two locomotives smashed into each other at full speed.
Mind you're not killed by the twisted pieces of photoshop flying overhead...
A lot of people here seem to have some belief that they're better off without Adobe/MS products (on their Mac or otherwise) but I guarantee they'd be the first to start whining if Adobe/MS discontinued Mac development.
Remember when I said that Apple should've done that a couple of years ago? Now it might be too late, unless Apple agrees to go full-on against Microshaft and up the ante to buy that putrid organism called Adobe...
MS IS
That first sentence exactly describes my initial thoughts on this. If there's any one company that I want absolutely nothing to do with Adobe it is Microsoft. I especially don't want them mucking around with programs like Dreamweaver. Microsoft is also one of the few companies I can see bloating Adobe more.
I would also hate for Microsoft to turn control of CS into a tool against Mac...
May such a thing never happen.
Maybe in some firms...
But not me.
Yeah, I'm a designer aswell, and I rely on Adobe Software everyday. Its no secret Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator are the best applications available for us Web & Graphic Designers.. If somehow this means no CS5 on the Mac, then I would switch to a PC in a heartbeat.
What I think should happen is. Apple should allow flash content the latest ipod touch's and iphones, should be more then capable of running flash.. My sister has 900MHZ P3 with 384Mhz of ram, runs flash smoothly..
What I think should happen is. Apple should allow flash content the latest ipod touch's and iphones, should be more then capable of running flash.. My sister has 900MHZ P3 with 384Mhz of ram, runs flash smoothly..
Hmm, like Viso, for example, which still doesn't have any real competition, but nevertheless gets a royal treatment from Microsoft, although it is a purchased product?
But MAYBE Microsoft will buy Adobe and then kill the Mac OS X ports of their products. You know, just as Apple did it with the Windows versions when they bought Logic...
The folks at Microsoft are pragmatic, they'd drop Silverlight in favor of Flash because Flash is the ACCEPTED product, not Silverlight.
Awful awful.
Who cares about Flash, but rather their design software....
Flash would be killed and replaced with Microsofts flash clone software, whatever it is called.
I'm not Microsoft's biggest fan, but the fact that they still develop Office for Mac shows that this is not their intention. The mac versions of Photoshop, Office, etc are profit-generating. To discontinue their development would unleash a regulatory and negative PR storm so big that everyone would know about it. Not to mention they would be giving up a ton of revenue in the hopes that people will switch to PC, which would never happen because there are plenty of alternatives, even some that support .doc, .xls, etc. I'd run iWork or Office 2011 forever if I had to before I bought a PC just for office.
Really?
And that's why MS is launching Office for Mac 2011 in about 3 weeks?
https://www.macrumors.com/2010/09/28/office-for-mac-2011-launches-october-26th/
I would not even buy "Microsoft Artwork Photoshop 2011 for Mac" if that happened. Hurry up, Pixelmator and get the layer styles ready and the text control, too so I can abandon Adobe products (except Illustrator, of course..)
Ever since Adobe acquired Macromedia, the company has spiraled downward with their customer service and update strategies.
Adobe stopped caring about their relationship with Apple, they canned really good engineers from Macromedia with the merger, and offer way too many microsoft-esque flavors of their suites.
Despite Apple's juggernaut growth, they are perpetually focused on the customer and delivering a quality product - whether it's entry-level or professional quality (FCP comes to mind - and Logic) that become industry standards.
Microsoft will only make Adobe worse, not better.
The concept of such an acquisition - the most creatively awkward company buying the software creatives rely on - this is going to haunt my nightmares.
Adobe stopped caring about their relationship with Apple, they canned really good engineers from Macromedia with the merger, and offer way too many microsoft-esque flavors of their suites.
Despite Apple's juggernaut growth, they are perpetually focused on the customer and delivering a quality product - whether it's entry-level or professional quality (FCP comes to mind - and Logic) that become industry standards.
Microsoft will only make Adobe worse, not better.
The concept of such an acquisition - the most creatively awkward company buying the software creatives rely on - this is going to haunt my nightmares.
