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Against Apple, Ballmer Floats Microsoft Merger With Adobe

Posted by timothy on from the natural-building-material dept.

Ebbesen writes "Ballmer had a meeting with the CEO of Adobe, and among other things: 'The meeting, which lasted over an hour, covered a number of topics, but one of the main thrusts of the discussion was Apple and its control of the mobile phone market and how the two companies could partner in the battle against Apple. A possible acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft were among the options.' Apparently MS has courted Adobe previously, but feared anti-trust regulations. With Google and Apple gaining, Microdobe might be possible."

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  1. Re:Efficient by Tackhead · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Microsoft and Adobe merging is an option that would increase efficiency. That way I can direct my hatred in one direction with less distraction from various evil companies.

    OK, if you Don't Wanna Be Evil, how about Google? They've got even more interest in Flash-on-mobile as a stopgap against Apple World Domination as Microsoft does, and could probably write a PDF viewer in less than 100 megabytes.

  2. Windows only? But why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dialogue from earlier today:
    Me -- Dude, I need a video card for that PC I was talking...
    Dude -- An AGP one?
    Me -- Yeah, guess so.
    Dude -- Don't have. But you can find one of those elsewhere... Did your card died on you?
    Me -- Nope. I figured out why Flash doesn't run. It needs 128MB minimum and the Nvidia card is 64MB only.
    Dude -- Wha?? Windows doesn't have such problems.
    Me-- Yeah, heard so. But I tested with Flash 8 and it runs ok. Flash 9 and 10 seem to revert to non-accelerated video.
    Dude -- What a bunch...
    Me -- Exactly.

    Why make it Windows only if you can make Linux and Mac look bad?

  3. Re:First post! by shugah · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mac users wouldn't recognize a womb it it sat in their face.

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    If you aren't part of the solution, then there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
  4. Now aren't we glad by Zelgadiss · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Glad that we have HTML5, it's not as mature as flash but it's getting there.

    HTML5 that has no chance of dying all of a sudden because it's parent company got bought out and the it's new owners decides to drop it.

    And suddenly Steve Jobs looks like a genius again.

    Can you imagined if Flash was popular on the iPhone as an app platform, popular to the extend that the iPhone relies heavy on it for applications - like the way the web depends on Flash for various things?
    Apple would be fucked. Thankfully for Apple, it isn't, and Apple has nothing to worry about.