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

    Good post, thanks for the cliche-killer.

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  3. 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 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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  4. 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."

  5. 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.