Longhorn's Flash Killer?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday November 6, 2003 @08:17AM from the one-tech-i'd-love-to-see-die dept.

SunSaw writes "Erin Joyce reports on internetnews.com that "Top developers at Microsoft are working on a new graphics and animation toolset for Longhorn (the next generation of Windows) that could spell trouble for Macromedia's popular Flash MX and Director MX animation tools". Flash's yet-to-be-released competition from M$ is code named "Sparkle" but it wasn't demonstrated during Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last week. Is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?"

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Has to be said by grub · 2003-11-06 08:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Meet Sparkle's new mascot.
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You mean in only 3 to 4 years, Microsoft will ... by burgburgburg · 2003-11-06 08:23 · Score: 5, Funny

have an astonishingly buggy piece of software tied intrinsically to their newly released incredibly buggy operating system that will have about 10% of the functionality that Macromedia Flash has now? One that only by the 3rd or 4th version (in another 3 years) might be adequate? Damn, I'm selling my Macromedia stock right now!