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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?"
Why does EVERY story have to end with a "Is this the beginning of the end for ...?" or "Can ... survive?" or some other such nonsense?
Seriously, what's the point?
How about:
XP -> XPense!
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin
Macromedia is responsible for the Macrovision, a pernicious technology of the 80's which not only cost the whole old video market (and the more recent dvd one) a whole lot of money but which has killed much user comodities. Just for this; Macromedia deserves to be extinct. They prone the killing of user commodities for the sake of corporative interests with very low efficiency. Screw them, let them die!
I say this because I remember been asked to help a group of students in the start of the 90's. In a student project where they wanted just to add a 5 seconds scene from a movie to the climax of their "montage". I couldn't help at the time because the scene was at the peek of the Macrovision effect. It was too late to find another appropriate scene, the poor guy never heard of copy protection before and he was up all night to find that one scene.
This evil technology prevented young students from expressing themselves and just because of it I say DRM in any form sucks so much it's dangerous.
no no, everyone should know the conspiracy!
Windows NT was originally developed by a guy that worked on VMS. Now, if you take each letter in 'VMS' and increment each letter's cardinal value, you get 'WNT' Coincidence? I think NOT!
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Apple, as usual wasn't first, or even better.
Best Buy can have you arrested
This idea was invented by Shampoo.