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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Open Flash source by raddan · 2003-11-06 08:22 · Score: 5, Interesting

Perhaps this would be a good time for Macromedia to get as many flash players on as many platforms as possible. They should open the source.
Re:What isn't MS bundling into Longhorn? by onyxruby · 2003-11-06 08:39 · Score: 5, Interesting

All things considered I think the killing off of the Registry is a far bigger story than a competitor of flash. This has been arguably overdue for many years, and long one of Microsofts OS weak points. Have you got a link for the registry story by chance?