Initial Review of Microsoft's Acrylic BETA

Geuis writes "I'll admit, I'm not a big Microsoft fan. I'm an old-time user of Adobe Photoshop, and I love nearly everything it can do. However, in the interest of science, I decided to try out the new beta for Microsoft's answer to Photoshop, Acrylic. My review is posted on my blog. Final recommendation: Stay as far away from Acrylic as you can. It needs so much development work done, it shouldn't be out of Alpha testing. If this is anywhere close to the final product they are planning to release, then Microsoft should be prepared to eat another few million in lost development funds. There's no reason you should have to eat it too."

Re:Wine?

[extagboy]

The question is... Will it run on windows?

Re:fp?

[metlin]

Grandparent:

The first two versions of ANY product always suck, if you consider an alpha build a full-fledged product.

Parent:

IE is at 6+ and it still sucks.

Well, that doesn't change the fact that the first two versions of IE sucked, dude. ^_^

err, thanks

[csimicah]

I actually thought MS might have crippled the download at first because I tried it with Firefox. I guess they haven't stooped that low yet.

Err, well, thanks for keeping us up to date on your paranoid fantasies, then.

As long as we're doing reviews...

[Monte]

I just saw "Revenge of the Silt" or whatever it's called, and I didn't like it one bit. I don't see wy everyone is carrying around light sticks when phasers are clearly superior, and what's with that short green dude? Is he some sort of third Klingon race? He's got the forehead right, but the skin color and the height are major issues for me.

And what's with this "Force" thing? I guess everyone is now hopped up on that chemical from "Plato's Shepchildren" and it's flying' furniture everywhere! I though that only worked on the one planet...?

And haven't these people heard of Transporters? I mean gag me with a tribble! My advice: Stay as far away from this movie as you can.

Re:Wow, so much nonsense in one blog entry

[David Horn]

I'd be more worried that he seemed to be seriously excited about a red-eye removal tool.

Re:Blogs as news now on slashdot

[solios]

If you define a "blog" as somebody being all DOOD OMFG LOOK HOW COOL [link] IS!!!!! and people then talking about it (see ANY Livejournal), then /. isn't just a blog, it's the Death Star of blogs.

Re:Wow, so much nonsense in one blog entry

[Deathlizard]

Man, since when did Slashdot starting posting ridiculous reviews from Joe Schmoe off the street?

Let's see if it submitted Article Passes the Slashdot article Submission test...

1) Does it Prase Linux: NO :(
2) Does it Bash Microsoft: YES :|
3) Does it talk about Firefox: YES :)
4) Is it duplicating something from today: NO :D

From what I see, it passed three of the four tests, so it's gold.

Re:Blogs as news now on slashdot

[kalidasa]

/. isn't just a blog, it's the Death Star of blogs.

Indeed. If one were to say that most blogs have an xacto knife and a 9V battery, Slashdot is a blog with a fusion reactor and friggin' laser beams on its ... well, you get the idea.

Re:Wow, so much nonsense in one blog entry

[zippthorne]

2 Y's and 2 N's. That's only two tests passed by my count.

Re:Wow, so much nonsense in one blog entry

[bonzoesc]

"You have not gained the right to review anything other than the smell of your own farts."

Dude, if somebody posted that in my blog, I'd be proud. That line is excellent and I can only hope to some day inspire that much hilarious nerd rage.