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Today, Adobe publicly announced Acrobat 8, Adobe Reader 8, and the Adobe Connect family of products (formerly know as the Macromedia Breeze product line.)

This is a very important announcement for Adobe, in part because it is the first combined launch of Adobe and former Macromedia products. By integrating Acrobat 8 and Acrobat Connect, Adobe is helping customers to communicate and collaborate with confidence, both on-demand and in real-time.

I've been running the beta of Acrobat 8 Professional for a few weeks and it's very cool some great new features and a great UI.

Rather than blogging the details, you can see the press releases here, and for more information on the Acrobat family you can look here.

Also Breeze - sorry Connect - has to be the most simple to use and "low impact" web conferencing tool (that I have used anyway). I know analysts normally hate being invited to briefings via web conference - trying to download web conferencing client software either through a corporate firewall or whilst sitting in an airport departure lounge is never going to lead to a good experience.  Acrobat Connect uses the Flash Player client - which is already on 98% of PC's (Mac's etc, etc) connected to the internet -so nothing to download - just type a URL into the browser and you're "good to go"!!

Adobe UK marked the announcement with a media and channel launch in London's Regent's Park. This was the first public outing for the Acrobat Domes (pictures soon). For more information on the Adobe Acrobat 8 UK tour, click here.

If you want more info on Acrobat, Acrobat Connect or the UK Acrobat Tour, drop me an email.