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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. Bleeeechhhh by paimin · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just vomited in my coffee.

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  2. Re:First post! by CdBee · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  3. Re:First post! by paimin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Riiiight. Because Microsoft has never done anything like that.

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  4. Re:PDF in Office by bflong · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  5. Re:Sure. by swimboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Adobe is still catching up after Apple yanked 64-bit Carbon support out from under them.

    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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  6. Microbe by ooloogi · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  7. Re:First post! by ooshna · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.