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Longhorn's Flash Killer?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. REPEAT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Hey, mod this down. Frost Pist! This is a fucking repeated article.

  2. Short answer. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?

    No.

  3. Is this the end? by rbruels · · Score: 1, Redundant

    . Is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?"

    No. Stop generating FUD. Sheesh.

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  4. Re:Finally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I guess marketing re-designated it to mean new technology.

    I guess marketing re-designated it to mean new technology.

  5. Re:Finally! by MORTAR_COMBAT! · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I was always told that "Windows NT" (WMT) was just a one-off from "VMS", much like the IBM=>HAL thing, VMS=>WNT.

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