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Adobe May Launch Office Rival

Posted by kdawson on from the now-it-gets-interesting dept.

Ulysees writes "According to Wired, Adobe may launch its own office-application suite, taking it into direct competition with Microsoft. Mike Downey, group manager for platform evangelism at Adobe, said: 'Though we have not yet announced any intentions to move into the office productivity-software market, considering that we have built this platform that makes it easy to build rich applications that run on both the desktop and the browser, I certainly wouldn't rule anything like that out.'" One example of what such Adobe Web-and-desktop apps could look like is provided by the Buzzword word processor, now in a closed beta. Adobe has invested in the startup developing this software.

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  1. Hey Rocky... by netglen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bullwinkle: Hey Rocky, watch me pull an Office suite rival out of my Hat.
    Rocky: "gain? that trick never works
    Bullwinkle: This time for sure. Nothing up my sleeves...PRESTO!
    Adobe_Killer_Office_App:
    Bullwinkle: Guess I should have stuck to bloatware readers, Google taskbar and Kinkos.
    Rocky: Now here's something you'll really like.

  2. They can win! by Bullfish · · Score: 4, Funny

    If anyone can make a more bloated, resource-hogging, and system buggering piece of software than MS, it's Adobe.

    Could be the best thing to ever happen to open office!