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Longhorn's Flash Killer?
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?"
How can people say BSD is dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!
You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. Would you buy software from them? I don't think so! You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!
With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!
Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!
Please email me any pics of Ceren you have.
God I wish I hadn't wasted my mod points... someone please nuke the parent post to the depths of troll hell....
Oh do be quiet, you prude. It's bloody hilarious.
A lot of the goals Microsoft is aiming at with "Sparkle" are the same as those Flash is looking to accomplish, one source said. But the tool goes beyond Flash in delivering a .NET application that has access to all the APIs (define) in Longhorn, and effectively takes animation beyond the browser to enable, say, three videos running at the same time as other graphics and animation.
Ah, yes, because giving access to the user's system to outsiders has worked so well with ActiveX, IE, and pretty much every other product Microsoft has put out.
Is this a sigs-optional kind of place? 'Cause I am totally down with that if you know what I mean.
Ooooo, you are CLEVER. Did you work on that lil troll all week? Sooooo cute, little boy!
How about this ?
Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1992-1951
To Microsoft:
Please please please please please make IE W3C compliant fixing all the CSS etc bugs and including SVG support. You can not imagine how cool it would be for webdesigners around the world to be able to design things properly and my faith in you would be.. erm created.
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Nice. Mod Funny please.
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