The Net is buzzing about a potential Microsoft acquisition of Adobe. Reportedly, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently met with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, which triggered a stream of speculations. As result, Adobe shares surged 12% on the stock market.
Source: Bloomberg
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It wold be sad if Adobe will be bot by Microsoft, very sad!
yep, sad!
Not that I use MAC but could MS interest in Adobe be an attempt to push down MAC but stop supporting MAC versions of Adobe SW?
Such tactical draw by MS would also force more people to use Windows OS so it would be a win-win situation, something for the national price and competition office perhaps.
It’ll be end of Adobe…
probably only thing which can save us from adobe crap like flash and overpriced photoshops
Funny how people hate on flash with the believe there arn’t others to jump in the hole.
MicroSoft itself has a similar solution (Silverlight) aimed for a piece of the flash cake.
Before Adobe took over Macromedia they tried to get a piece of flash cake with SVG.
And there are still Java Applets and Ajax without a fast driven development background.
You think flash is late on security updates? you know nothing about most other web technologies…
They bought IView Media Pro, fiddled with it and sold it after most of the customers left, god help adobe and all its users.
NOOOOOOOO!!!!
Please let apple do it. But probably not possible since the flash HTML5 discussion…
This is crazy bad. No or slower updates for mac, and M$ shit $ ads on my head.
this is the sort of catastrophe that i can’t really love. it means that in future while you’ll be in the middle of adjusting the settings of Lightroom or ACR, you will see from time to time a msg like this : “ACR has encountered an unexpected error and needs to close” and you’ll lose all fiddling you have made before the crash.
NOOOOOOOO the worst think that can happen, Microsoft is 100% crap they are unable to do a good job
This would really fit: two lazy shops, both presumably having never heard something about clean and proper programming, both with subterranean customers support, both unable to understand, what users say; – earning ridiculous amounts of money with this behavior. Authority of Microsoft in picture-making: capable to ruin the outstanding iView Media Pro within only one (!) versionnumber; adobe with the inaptitude to adjust the multitude of little inconveniences pertubing every single day with Photoshop, taking a rest for the last four, six, whatever years, consuming the laurels of the past.
Perfect.
A new golden age; i fear: not for us.
This would be ridiculous. Adobe would loose lot’s of it’s customers. MS is only accepted as a opearating system and office producer, everything else is not wanted.
Even Microsoft Office is terrible.
Microsoft Word – How the hell did MIcrosoft succeed in creating such a buggy, complicated and fickle program that is merely a digital typerwriter!
Same things goes for PowerPoint. Terrible, terrible, terrible!
And to think these two programs have become industry standard!
and Open Office is FREE
Two word: please don’t.
Ummm…. is “please don’t” really three words (hyphenated form of “please do not”)????
A hyphen or “-” is used to join words to indicate combined meaning. What I used is called a contraction. Which is sometimes considered a single word in informal writing.
Just one word:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
lol
If it makes you nervous upgrade before it happens and pray you do not need an update to ACR…
I don’t know if you have notice that … windows is more stable than mac right now. I work on these two Os. Don’t say MS crash all time it’s not true. I’m running on Vista (wich suposely crash all the way) since 3 year and I never crash.
I crashed only 1 time or so, and it was because I was using a slow video card (updated mine immediately..) combined with too much power needed for PhotoShop, not MicroSoft’s fault
Adobe is POS, same as Apple. MS have no interest in the market but adobe is so big that they would let them live and ony grab moneys.
Face it, MS is much more customers oriented then Adobe with all their proprietary hacks and blown up software.
God thanks for Capture One, so i dont need any photoshop.
hum … was you need it …. you just don’t need camera raw (wich is crap compare to capture one)
YOU GOT THE BLUE!!!!
This is only an example of how a false rumor can propagate on the internet by ‘credible’ sources copy and pasting information found on a blog site.
you are absolutely right! i just checked on acquire.com and couldn’t find any confirmation.
How do you know that this is a false rumor? It was initially reported by the NY Times I think.
i read that a ZD editor who specializes in reporting about MS, said that he/she is so skeptical, but sure this is not the same as saying it’s a fake rumor.
ZD net, i meant
Panasonic to acquire Olympus, sounds more credible in the moment.
not an expert of those brands but.. doesn’t that mean one giga-super-leader of the evil format?
There is no such thing as “false rumors” a rumors is just something that some people, somewhere, might have heard… if it’s there, if we read it, if we talk about it, then it’s a rumor.
Is it a true 100% verified fact or a complete lie? We can’t be sure unless we get more information than a “rumor” It’s kinda hard to speculate on what’s going on just because two important guy drank coffee or water together…
Also… lol @ apple fanboys, you are pathetic in your unconditional hate for microsoft and love for apple… those two companies (and OS) are so much more similar than you think…
Do NEVER use Adobe nor M$ nor Apple, and the sky becomes cleaner…
Arguing with fanboys is pointless. Thats all that is on this site of course, kinda sad.
NO~!~!~! Anti-trust Anti-trust Anti-trust Anti-trust Anti-trust Anti-trust Anti-trust