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March 20, 2006
Mixing it up this week?
Microsoft is hosting some developers at Mix 06 this week, apparently most of them are loyal to Adobe products, at least according to his article. Something really bothered me, and it shows up later in said article: "Ovum's Rotibi said that Adobe is "not standing still" and is improving the interoperability between its products, although Microsoft, with its still-unreleased products, remains "one step ahead."" Can someone *please* explain to me how a company that has yet to release an actual product can be one step ahead of a company that has released Photoshop for 16 years now, Flash for 10 years and Flex for 2 or 3 years? Come on!
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Hi Mike! Belive it, they are ahead. Look at XML, what are they doing, what does Adobe. Look at SOA, same goes here. I like Adobe prodcuts a lot, they are create. But from a integration point of view, the are still in the late 90ees. Also look at developer community support, they are just faster, smarter (=opend minded) and adding this up - BETTER! Hope Adobe has recognised this and will weakup!
what on earth are you smoking?
It depends on how you define interoperability.
If you mean "Between different Microsoft platforms", then they're beating you stupid. If you mean, between Microsoft platforms and (other) platforms, you guys are ahead, although Acrobat is rapidly becoming a Windows - only application and infrastructure, and neither of you have a great record on Linux.
This is the most revealing line in the whole story:
"The things you can do in WPF, Flash can't do," Cuenco said. For example, with Expression, developers will be able to build interfaces or "skins" on top of business applications that can be easily swapped out by users or customized to make them easier or more powerful to use, Cuenco said.
Can somebody tell me the last time you saw a "skin" actually improve the usability of an application? I have no problems with skinning an app, but that's a far cry from usability improvements or interaction testing. If other developers think that merely skinning an app is all they need to do, then let 'em go nuts.
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