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Microsoft Pauses Work on 'Photoshop Killer'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the Adobe-breathes-a-brief-sigh-of-relief dept.

daria42 writes "According to this article, Microsoft has paused development work on some parts of the pro graphics application it first released in beta back in June 2005. The problem? It appears the software giant doesn't see the application as a stand-alone product, but more of a companion piece to its Expression product line. Plus Vista needs to be released first."

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  1. PaintbrushShop by ExE122 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure the real problem is that they're trying to integrate it with windows so that windows won't work if you delete it...

    *cough* *explorer* *cough*

    I bet in the end, its just gonna be a fancy version of paintbrush

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    1. Re:PaintbrushShop by Valacosa · · Score: 2, Funny

      They should wrap the entire thing within the display device context. Then technically, no monitor would work without the program installed!

      It's a good thing I don't work for Microsoft.

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  2. Gimps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Come on You Gimps

  3. Re:The Cliché of "Killer" by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good post, thanks for the cliche-killer.

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  4. News? by bk4u · · Score: 5, Funny

    This isn't news, let me know when Google makes one, then I'll be interested

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    1. Re:News? by simong · · Score: 2, Funny

      But what would Google do with the knowledge that people photoshopped their girlfriends' head onto Angelina Jolie's body?

    2. Re:News? by mod-e-rate · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hopefully it will be called Gooshop. And will definitely be supported by ads. The moment you do anything in "Gooshop", it will display "photosense" ads alongside the image being edited. And your photos and photo editing history will be saved by Google, so that next time you open Gooshop, Google will suggest the list of photos that you are "likely" to edit. And also suggest the editing actions you are likly to use. After using Gooshop for a while, it might just be able to satisfy all your photo-editing needs automatically. Just run Googhsop service and forget about it. Gooshop will edit, scale, mail, publish, print, frame photos for you. All automatically.

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  5. 42 by webword · · Score: 2, Funny

    The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life... ...also the number of times the Gimp will be mentioned here.

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  6. Expression marketing campaign? by Rahga · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hey guys, lets get a lot of photos of people pretending to paint, then copy and paste and rotate them a lot so it looks like a kaleidoscope!"

    Genius, I tell you. Pure genius.

    I need one of those koosh Microsoft jobs... From where I'm standing, I'm reminded of the Ghostbusters line: "I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."

  7. Beta Version avaliable now by phase_9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    if you haven't tried the beta already, simply press the Windows Key and R, then type 'mspaint.exe' without the quotes.
    classic.

  8. Microsoft Expression? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    What are people going to say when a photograph looks fake? It must have been expressed? Doesn't sound right.

  9. the Photoshop-killer-killer by digitaldc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Vista needs to be released first

    Looks like Vista is the Photoshop-killer-killer

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  10. Re:The Cliché of "Killer" by TubeSteak · · Score: 1, Funny
    Microsoft Pauses Work on 'Photoshop Killer'
    The Latest iPod Assassination Attempt
    Sony's Revolution Killer?
    Microsoft's Sparkle a Flash Killer?
    Microsoft to Launch "Skype Killer"
    StarOffice 8 May Be MS Office Killer


    All of those are euphamisms for Chuck Norris

    Microsoft Pauses Work on 'Chuck Norris'
    Chuck Norris iPod Assassination Attempt
    Chuck Norris: Sony's Revolution Killer?
    Microsoft's Chuck Norris a Flash Killer?
    Microsoft to Launch "Chuck Norris"
    Chuck Norris May Be MS Office Killer

    Clichés taste good with a little bit of chocolate frosting :O)
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  11. Clippy Returns! by zaguar · · Score: 2, Funny
    Repost from the other thread, but it's still valid

    / \
    O O
    |||/
    |\/|
    \__/
    Hey there, partner! It looks like you're trying to change your color balance!

    Would you like me to:
    1. Overwrite all pixels with #000000
    2. Overwrite all pixels with #FFFFFF
    3. Corrupt your image
    4. Save your image in our proprietary format that even we can't read
    5. Take you to the Gimp homepage
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  12. Re:They did what? by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nyet! Programmers ran out on them!

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  13. The real reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    To get further in the code, they need to wait for the next version of the GIMP software to be released.