Via JD : "In January, Stephen Elop sat on a chair in a plush conference room and talked about his decision to sell Macromedia to Adobe ( ADBE ). He was calm and jovial, describing the process of Adobe Chief Executive Bruce Chizen "courting" him. Elop talked about their first "date" at a cheesy Italian...

Via JD : "In January, Stephen Elop sat on a chair in a plush conference room and talked about his decision to sell Macromedia to Adobe ( ADBE ). He was calm and jovial, describing the process of Adobe Chief Executive Bruce Chizen "courting" him. Elop talked about their first "date" at a cheesy Italian...

In today's non-Microsoft related news: Adobe missed earnings by a bit and adjusted projections downward: [1] http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200606/Q206Earnings.html Shortly after being made President of Worldwide operations, Macromedia's CEO, Stephen Elop got the boot: [2] http...

So, Adobe is threatening to sue Microsoft in regard to supporting PDF and XPS in Office... I wonder what is going to happen with the supposedly open SWF format... It's a good thing Microsoft didn't follow JD's advice and integrate it into their products. But I wonder.... if Microsoft bundles WPF/E with...

If you haven't heard about the whole Adobe nonsense lately, you should. Adobe is really doing a good job of being a little brat and complicating matters for millions of Office users around the world. The last two weeks have seen a big increase in the amount of press coverage and blog discussions of file...

Via JD, Adobe has killed all future SVG player development. With Adobe out of the game due to Flash and Microsoft out of the game with WPF/E, we are one step closer to SVG being know as the vector graphics betamax. [1] http://www.adobe.com/svg/eol.html [2] http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006...

On2, the guys behind the latest video codec in Flash, are celebrating some live streaming stuff. I agree, the codec is nice. What isn't nice is the rediculous licensing costs to use the codec. Note to Macromedia/Adobe: if you are going to try to make an open file format, write the codecs yourself...

Via JD : "Over the last couple of weeks, Adobe’s Voice over IP plans for Flash have been leaking out with regularity, as Adobe representatives met with companies at VON. Today’s feature on GigaOm is a nice summary." [1] Interesting idea that could be very cool... but if the guys...

The first glimpse of Adobe Apollo has arrived: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1551903488172905143 (via Mike Chambers http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2006/11/video_leveragin.html ) The HTML + Flash integration is definitely sweet. I've long had the opinion that Flash just isn't...

"Tamarin project: Big news. Adobe contributes a significant amount of scripting-engine source code to Mozilla Foundation. In essence, the high-performance scripting in Adobe Flash Player 9 will soon be available in Firefox, Thunderbird, and other applications. Upside: much of the logic engine in...