Microsoft unveils rivals to Adobe graphics tools

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Microsoft's long list of competitors just became a little longer.

The Redmond company unveiled its new collection of professional graphic design and animation tools Wednesday, moving into the longtime domain of Adobe Systems and the company Adobe is acquiring, Macromedia.

The Microsoft Expression tools, still in preliminary form, demonstrate the company's continued willingness to tackle more areas of the software business -- even if that means competing with other companies that make software for Microsoft's Windows operating system.
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bleh. it'll be full of bugs, slow, chuggy, and no-one will buy it. then they'll force it onto home systems to get it around, thus repeating the internet explorer/media player problems and lawsuits.

and adobe will be 10x better and more supported. :D
 
If Microsoft can offer the same functionality of Adobe's equivalent and at less cost, I don't see why Microsoft can't take market away from Adobe.
 
Those are hardly Adobe rivals.

"Acryllic" is just a beefed up version of MSPaint useful for quick editing whereas "Sparkle" is more of a development environment. It allows developers to easily create interfaces without having to code them. If anything, it competes with Visual Studio. And lastly, "Quartz" is just another web design application. Now that Adobe have acquired Macromedia (and Dreamweaver), I don't think they'll have to worry about competition from MS in that area.

I really wish Microsoft would just focus on their core programs (Windows, Office & Visual Studio) instead of trying to break into every market possible and steal market share from other companies. It gets lame after awhile.
 
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Those are hardly Adobe rivals.

"Acryllic" is just a beefed up version of MSPaint useful for quick editing whereas "Sparkle" is more of a development environment. It allows developers to easily create interfaces without having to code them. If anything, it competes with Visual Studio. And lastly, "Quartz" is just another web design application. Now that Adobe have acquired Macromedia (and Dreamweaver), I don't think they'll have to worry about competition from MS in that area.

I really wish Microsoft would just focus on their core programs (Windows, Office & Visual Studio) instead of trying to break into every market possible and steal market share from other companies. It gets lame after awhile.
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In the year 2020 Google and Microsoft are going to join forces and take over the world.

Don't say I didn't warn you. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go hide under my desk and cry like a small child.
 

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