
Rumour..
rejects Microsoft as nonsense.
That's fixed it !
A merger between software vendors Microsoft and Adobe has been reportedly dismissed as “nonsense” by sources inside Redmond. The New York Times reported yesterday that MS boss Steve Ballmer and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen had been in talks recently, sparking speculation that a buyout could be imminent. As The Register and …
"Adobe’s stock rocketing on Wall Street yesterday following the rumor. "
JFC These Wall Street people must be real Muppet's.
A collision between Adobe and Microsoft would produce an even more expensive none-responsive operation system.
Ms-Bloat 8. I can just imagine it shipping on about 50 DVD's
One company that has lost the innovation, buying another that has lost its innovation ... might make sense in another world, but not this one.
If I remember correctly, HDR was the selling feature of CS4, I can't remember if there even IS a CS5 let alone what the "killer feature" of it is. ... oh ... apart from needing the latest version to read the RAW files of your new camera, of course.
As I recall, Creative Suite CS5 brings:
• that automatic clone tool type thing so that you can select objects and have them automatically removed and the background filled in with meaningful photographic detail;
• proper Cocoa ports and 64bit support for the Mac across the suite;
• an iPhone compiler for Flash, which the App Store police banned and then unbanned.
Those are, I think, all the 'big' ones. No doubt bullet point two cost a considerably larger amount of development time than would appear to be obvious to an end user.
For me, the new masking and edge detection tools, alone, made it worthwile.
HDR is a bit of a parlor trick really; there are companies making specialist HDR software that's much more flexible, when compared to Photoshop's implementation. Still, it has been improved again in CS5 though.
Every new version brings lots of incremental improvements (important workflow ones, not Ooh Aahh marketing ones) that makes it worth upgrading; things like improved 16bit support and the ability to use smart objects for more and more things.
Maybe it's because it's 08:11 on Monday morning and I'm still asleep, but I'm trying to think of the overlap between Adobe and Microsoft. Can you give me some examples? Flash and Silverlight are the nearest ones that come to mind.
When I think of the Microsoft products we use, I can even think of an Adobe product that I would use in its place and vice versa: Excel? SQL Server? Windows Server? Visual Studio? Photoshop? Premiere? Illustrator?
An Apple buyout of Adobe would seem more logical to me, especially as Apple would be getting control their once killer-app and the iCEO could finally banish Flash into Wilderness.
My insufficiently coffee-adled brain is open to correction.