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* Dreamweaver, the only thing that has come close to a web development IDE/WYSIWYG editor of any sizable distinction or market share.
* Freehand, one of the major competitors to Illustrator. * Illustrator, arguably the industry-standard vector graphics package. * Fireworks (as of the last week), the only serious competition Photoshop has for web developers. * Photoshop, the defacto standard for photo editing software.
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There are numerous professional publications that have moved from Quark Xpress to Indesign of late, and they now own all of the following as well: Microsoft kill Adobe? You have to be shitting me.Īdobe are greater than just PDF, for a start. So once again all I can say to Microsoft is "thanks, but no thanks".
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This can only encourage developers/companies to focus more on the quality of the software they produce in order to stand out from the competition. Insisiting on open formats and open standards also means everyone has to compete on a level playing field. Fine as long as they "play nicely" but what happens when they suddenly decide you can't have your stuff back without paying an enormous fee ? Or that you now have to pay them large maintenance fees for them to keep storing your stuff ? Or in the worst case where they sell the safe to "a big band gang" who now insist this means they own your stuff too ? Or as I like to think of it it's like putting your swag in someone elses safe where you haven't got the key. If your data is being held in someone elses proprietary, secret, format then you risk losing your own data. The only reason to use a computer is to manipulate and store data. Metro fails on that due to licensing restrictions. Yes, it's owned by Adobe, but anyone can implement a writer or a reader.
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Publishing is about reaching your audience and that's where a freely available, documented format like PDF comes in. The only way for MS to gain marketshare over PDF would be to leverage their desktop monopoly to break into that new market currently occupied by PDF.Įven if the licensing were just a rubberstamp issue (which it probably isn't) with MS giving the nod till all who request it (which it probably won't), dealing with the paperwork is an unreasonable hurdle and PDF still wins.
I expect that an alpha version of "Shorthorn" will get pushed out the door in December just to justify claims that it was ready in 2006. I mean everyone who bought into Software Assurance got a good return on investment, right? It may also give a good base for customers who've been burned by pricing, licensing or security issues to file with the Better Business Bureau. That would give a baseline on what to expect from "Shorthorn". They make alot of money off customer support.Īssuming anyone still has some computing magazines from 5 or 10 years ago, it is possible to compare the hype and sales brochures for NT and 2000 to what was actually delivered. Welcome Microsoft to the printing world where they are Big Boys MS would have to provide these manufacturer's with the software as they are not good at this so MS will do a referance implmentation and those are always great.
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MS thinks that printer Manufacture's are going to incorperate this and not pay adobe for their RIP and yeah its possible that some low end might do it just witness HP and their printing comunication but HP size & time doing this plus where do they make money. MS want to write PDF's and have been in talks for a year now with adobe I guess it a new level in those "talks" MS are completly unable to produce a decent PDF RIP for windows ! (intresting thing is Acrobat sales account for nearly as much as the whole "creative suite" photoshop et al ) Licence your stuff to us and make a bit of money or we will kill your income stream with a new file format killing your PDF RIP & Acrobat
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'We will offer products based on this next generation RIP technology and make them available under license to printer manufacturers and software integrators worldwide.' Yes, I can see it now - entire industries undoing their time-tested, battle hardend PDF-based workflows with free and open files all for the chance to use patented, pay-for-use Microsoft proprietary workflows, software, and files. I noticed the main, and probably most important difference between old and busted PDF and new-hotness Metro (besides the Queer Eye styled name). Can we expect Microsoft to do this right? If they do, I think it could be a good thing." Reader gsfprez is less optimistic: ". The format will be open and available for royalty-free licensing, and will be based on XML. Apparently, Metro is intended to be a competitor to Adobe's PDF and Postscript formats. RustNeverSleeps writes "Computerworld reports that Microsoft will be including a new document format called 'Metro' with Longhorn.