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10/07/2010 09:49:43 PM · #1 |
Is Microsoft buying Adobe? Maybe Apple should not have dissed them.
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10/07/2010 09:52:02 PM · #2 |
Ugh... I hope not... Microsoft has too much of a tendency to dumb-down apps to a point of losing any usefulness.
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10/07/2010 09:57:40 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Ugh... I hope not... Microsoft has too much of a tendency to dumb-down apps to a point of losing any usefulness. |
Amen to that!! |
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10/07/2010 09:57:49 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by jbsmithana:
Is Microsoft buying Adobe? Maybe Apple should not have dissed them.
Reuters |
sounds like they want flash, not photoshop.
they already have silverlight, hmmm. they are really gearing up this fight with google and apple.
this is going to be great. nothing breeds better products than competition from the big boys. |
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10/07/2010 09:59:12 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by mike_311:
Originally posted by jbsmithana:
Is Microsoft buying Adobe? Maybe Apple should not have dissed them.
Reuters |
sounds like they want flash, not photoshop.
they already have silverlight, hmmm. they are really gearing up this fight with google and apple.
this is going to be great. nothing breeds better products than competition from the big boys. |
Actually I heard that on the financial news on the way home. This is why they are doing it. Is to compete with Google and Apple |
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10/07/2010 10:10:36 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by JaimeVinas:
Originally posted by mike_311:
Originally posted by jbsmithana:
Is Microsoft buying Adobe? Maybe Apple should not have dissed them.
Reuters |
sounds like they want flash, not photoshop.
they already have silverlight, hmmm. they are really gearing up this fight with google and apple.
this is going to be great. nothing breeds better products than competition from the big boys. |
Actually I heard that on the financial news on the way home. This is why they are doing it. Is to compete with Google and Apple |
May be but I don't think Apple did themselves any favors by dumping on Adobe after years of cooperation. They helped build each other. Not sure Adobe would have entertained an offer in the past. |
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10/07/2010 10:27:57 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Ugh... I hope not... Microsoft has too much of a tendency to dumb-down apps to a point of losing any usefulness. |
For example?
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10/07/2010 10:34:56 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Ugh... I hope not... Microsoft has too much of a tendency to dumb-down apps to a point of losing any usefulness. |
For example? |
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And may we not forget Bob.
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10/07/2010 10:40:03 PM · #9 |
| for example... they took on foxpro. a perfectly fine database app, when they already have sql server. they bought it so that they could kill it, but it was in many people's view a much better product, they should have killed sqlserver instead. then they wanted their own java virtual machine. good thing sun and oracle stood their grounds. the list goes on. |
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10/07/2010 10:45:07 PM · #10 |
| ohh... i just figured they bought foxpro so that they could kill it. could it be that they are getting flash so that they could kill it too? and silverlight will take centerstage... hmm. i hope not. |
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10/07/2010 10:49:06 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Ugh... I hope not... Microsoft has too much of a tendency to dumb-down apps to a point of losing any usefulness. |
For example? |
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Picture It
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And may we not forget Bob. |
AFAIK, those apps weren't dumbed down--they were all designed for novice users. The last example, Bob, was just a stupid idea to begin with. Certainly every company produces dogs.
Now I do agree that Microsoft does sometimes try to buy the competition in order to kill it. That would be a stupid thing to do to Adobe.
But Microsoft also buys companies/products to gain access to their technology. (A product I work with Folio Views, is one example of that. They never touched or harmed the product, and eventually found it a new home. Hopefully, they have honorable motivation in this case.
Message edited by author 2010-10-07 23:08:24.
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10/07/2010 11:05:12 PM · #12 |
That's not true. Microsoft doesn't dumb down anything, they just convert things into viruses.
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Ugh... I hope not... Microsoft has too much of a tendency to dumb-down apps to a point of losing any usefulness. |
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10/07/2010 11:15:43 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by PGerst:
That's not true. Microsoft doesn't dumb down anything, they just convert things into viruses.
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Ugh... I hope not... Microsoft has too much of a tendency to dumb-down apps to a point of losing any usefulness. |
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But at least those viruses stop responding after awhile.
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10/08/2010 06:06:31 AM · #14 |
Nooooooooooooo.
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10/10/2010 01:53:02 PM · #15 |
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