MS Unveils Beta of New Image Editing Program

docdude316 writes "CNET is running a story about Microsoft's new photo editing software, Acrylic. The new program is based on Expression, which Microsoft purchased in 2003. From the article: 'Microsoft describes the software--currently available as a 77MB free download--as bringing together pixel-based painting and vector graphics features. These capabilities will put the product squarely in the market currently dominated by software maker Adobe Systems with its pixel-focused Photoshop and vector-driven Illustrator products. Acrylic appears to support opening and exporting to Photoshop and Illustrator file formats, as well as other standard graphics formats. In addition, the application appears to be able to export to Adobe's Portable Document Format, or PDF.'

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Re:M$ is really on a tear today...

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Mozilla for example is based on ideas, technology and a codebase developed by Netscape... ...which like IE and almost every browser released in the 1990s, is based on a product called Mosaic which was based on work done at the University of Illinois in something pretty close to an open source process, if not Free by the FSF's definition.