The New York Times web site posted a Reuters article titled "Olympics Set The Stage For Emerging Web Tech Fight" about how Microsoft's Silverlight is competing with Adobe's Flash to become a major platform for both Web video and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). As the article characterizes it, "Microsoft's Silverlight technology and rival Adobe's Flash … Continue reading Reuters and the New York Times on RIAs
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Flash and PDF in Acrobat 9 (and Clarifying the Wall Street Journal)
Adobe Systems yesterday announced Acrobat 9 and the beta of the company's Acrobat.com hosted document services. Adobe's Ryan Stewart has good coverage on his ZDNet Universal Desktop column and his Digital Backcountry blog. ReadWriteWeb does its usual excellent job of covering the details. You'd do much better reading these blog posts than the venerable Wall … Continue reading Flash and PDF in Acrobat 9 (and Clarifying the Wall Street Journal)
Kevin Lynch: Clearing the AIR
Knowledge@Wharton today published an interview I did with Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch. Lynch talks in depth about the origins of Adobe's AIR platform and its potential impact on software developers, consumers, and business users. Lynch also addresses some of the issues raised by Microsoft corporate vice president Scott Guthrie in a previous interview in which … Continue reading Kevin Lynch: Clearing the AIR
Pre-MIX Mishmash
MIX -- which is more or less Microsoft's version of Adobe's MAX -- is just around the corner and the rumors are flying regarding potential announcements around Microsoft's Web application strategy (or, perhaps more accurately, "strategies"). Ryan Stewart cites Michael Arrington's TechCrunch post speculating that Microsoft may announce offline capabilities for Silverlight. Stewart correctly clarifies … Continue reading Pre-MIX Mishmash
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