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Microsoft Shouldn't Buy Adobe: 10 Reasons Why
- ecaradec 16y agoThe article seems to focus on Flash. Adobe has more products than that, and has a quasi monopol around graphism tools. Acquiring Adobe could help MS with design, something MS is really bad at. Since XP I don't really think that windows looks particularly good. More design focus is something that could benefit MS especially since Apple is so much into it. Or may be they could hire a really good designer (or trust one they have ), that would be cheaper...
- SabrinaDent 16y ago#.11 They'll take a really beautifully designed product suite and turn it into a Teletubbies trainwreck inside two years.
- teilo 16y agoThe title of this article alone is enough to make be feel like I just got sucker-punched in the gut. It would be a hard pill to swallow if Microsoft gained control of Flash, Acrobat, Photoshop, the PDF spec -- in fact, that would be a near nightmare for the printing industry in which I work. I hope this is just a bad dream...