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Microsoft To Acquire Macromedia?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rumours-swirling-around dept.

perly-king-69 writes "The Register is reporting that 'industry sources' say that Microsoft have Macromedia in their sights. Whilst it could just be holiday gossip, if they do pull it off it could have a significant impact on the cross-browser compatibility of Flash applications."

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  1. Re:MacroMedia, Borland, Rational by Lobo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes they are innovative! They created the web browser...er...they created that really neat program Visio...er...they created the office suite...er...they created the GUI...er...

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  2. In Other News. . . by snitty · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . . Microsoft plans to aquire the DOJ.

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  3. Re:uh oh by rknop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does anyone else think that if this happened it would be the absolute worst thing that ever happened to the web?

    No. A bunch of worse possibilities immediately leap to mind:

    • The September that never ended
    • Graphical mail clients with proportional fonts
    • HTML E-mail
    • the "blink" tag
    • Web-based forums overtaking NNTP
    • "WYSIWYG" (a complete misunderstanding of the web) page makers which write awful, awful, bloated code
    • Telecom monopolies on the "last mile"

    ...but most of all....

    • The introduction of Flash in the first place!

    -Rob

  4. Re:Don't only focus on the negative!! by b_pretender · · Score: 5, Funny
    now, microsoft's "save as html" feature in word, excel, etc definately produces some cryptic, overly bloated, and nearly unusable html..
    </i><img src="pix.gif" width="1" height="1"></p style="messy">


    <content type="MSWord" created="Microsft" data="useless"><include stylesheet="useless_bloated.css">What are you talking about? MS Word's save is <h1><'/h1>HTML is how I learned to write webpages. </p style="mozilla_noncompliant">
  5. Re:If Microsoft makes Flash proprietary... by nizo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh God please let this happen, if for no reason than to make Flash sites disappear.

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  6. Re:Dreamweaver is the prize! by GlassUser · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't understand what you're talking about. In my experience, Microsoft makes the best HTML editor hands down.

    This page proudly created with NOTEPAD.EXE

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