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Against Apple, Ballmer Floats Microsoft Merger With Adobe
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."
I just vomited in my coffee.
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Microdobe? Please.
If Adobe is lucky, they will be "Adobe, an independently managed subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation".
More likely, Adobe + Microsoft = Microsoft.
Double the evil, double the fun.
Well I would guess they would be Windows only. The opposite happened when Apple bought Logic Pro and offered migration to the Mac version, as there would be no future windows builds. Apple sowed the wind on this particular trick..
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Riiiight. Because Microsoft has never done anything like that.
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How many Windows users of Logic Pro were there? My recollection was there were not many so cutting the Windows version wasn't a big loss, and Apple didn't want to support a Windows version. If Adobe cuts off OS X versions of their professional tools like Photoshop, they will be losing about 50% of their customers.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
ColdFusion used to be great. When it was just owned by Allaire. Then MacroMedia walks into the picture, buys Allaire and starts putting out buggy ColdFusion releases. Then Adobe buys MacroMedia and people thought they would handle ColdFusion better, but soon found out that all they really were doing was cramming Flash in it to make it even buggier and bloated.
I love CFML, but I haven't used Adobe's ColdFusion in over 2 years. Railo and BlueDragon for me.
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Try the Mac version and get back to us. It is crippled, try using excel services for one.
As far as I know, that is not correct. PDF is an open format, and anyone can write software to create PDF's without needing a licence from Adobe. The reason PDF export isn't built into MS Office is because MS decided not to do it.
Why is it so hot? Where am I going? What am I doing in this handbasket?
Boo-freakin-hoo! Apple told developers ten years ago that Carbon was just a bridge to the new OS and that Cocoa was the way to go. Adobe knew full well that sooner or later, carbon applications were going to be second-class citizens; and spent the last ten years with their heads in the sand about it.
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Found the story about it, seems to be kind of a funny issue. Apparently Adobe sued MSFT in Europe because they didn't want the competition with Acrobat, but you're right, PDF is an open format, and Adobe at another time said anyone could work with it. Guess it's just because Office would be making money off it? Here's the story
Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
> I guess I'll look seriously into starting to use Gimp, Xara LX and Inkscape. Are there any good open source photo editors / bitmap graphics applications?
Digikam for photo editor and Krita for bitmap graphics. Karbon14, Inkscape or LibreOffice Draw for vector graphics.
The Microbee was a home computer from Australia in the early 80s. With a merger between Microsoft and Adobe, they may just catch its performance.
I'm open to being corrected.
And, if you've read about DR-DOS, it wouldn't be the first time.
But why argue, just rank me as flamebait... easier than thinking, isn't it?
WP7 development platform is Silverlight - any WP7 app is either a Silverlight app or an XNA app.
That said, it makes sense to try to draw an existing large pool of developers which have so far been not particularly well accommodated by other mobile platforms. Especially if your competitors are so much ahead of you there, and it's going to be a very hard struggle uphill.
Well other than the fact the when bought by Microsoft it had a shit load of money thrown at it I was going off the first sentence of the article on Wikipedia. I've played a few Halos and I don't remember any being RTS.
Bungie was a, or perhaps the , well-known Mac-friendly game developer...
When I think Mac-friendly game developer, the first name that springs to mind is Blizzard.
At the time we're talking about, though, Blizzard was "Those guys that made Lost Vikings and Warcraft 1."
Microsoft bought Bungie around 2000 from memory. Blizzard was far more than just Warcraft 1 by that stage.