Against Apple, Ballmer Floats Microsoft Merger With Adobe 520
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."
Bleeeechhhh (Score:5, Informative)
Microdobe? (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:First post! (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Fine wit-it, if they put .NET back in Dreamweav (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:First post! (Score:2, Informative)
Try the Mac version and get back to us. It is crippled, try using excel services for one.
Re:PDF in Office (Score:5, 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.
Re:Sure. (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:PDF in Office (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Time to look for open source alternatives (Score:1, Informative)
> 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.
Microbe (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.
Re:Windows only? But why? (Score:1, Informative)
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?
Re:Doubtful (Score:3, Informative)
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.
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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.
Re:First post! (Score:3, Informative)
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.