Adobe May Launch Office Rival

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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Worse than MS ? you bet!

[billcopc]

Raise your hand if you think Adobe software is even more buggy and temperamental than Microsoft ?

Raise your hand if every new version of Photoshop and Acrobat is sigificantly slower and weirder than the last.

Raise your hand if you'd rather donate your money to one of the many open-source suites in existence, that will inevitably be more reliable and enjoyable than anything to come out of Adobe.

(those of you with 3 hands in the air, umm... I love you!)