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Submission + - Adobe may launch Office rival 1

Ulysees writes: Adobe may launch its own office-application suite, taking it into direct competition with Microsoft.

In an interview, Mike Downey, group manager for platform evangelism at Adobe, said that, although he could not reveal any plans at the moment, the possibility should not be dismissed.

"Though we have not yet announced any intentions to move into the office productivity-software market, considering that we have built this platform that makes it easy to build rich applications that run on both the desktop and the browser, I certainly wouldn't rule anything like that out," Downey told Wired.com.

Feed Wired: Buzzword: Web-Based Office Docs Never Looked So Good (wired.com)

Word processing in the browser was always been "convenient," but rarely has it been called "full-featured," or even "beautiful." But the web apps status quo is set to change with the arrival of Buzzword, an office-caliber document editor with a visually rich user interface.


Comment Innocents Day? (Score 3, Insightful) 922

Sorry guys, but the story was published on Dec 28th, which is the innocents saints day. I don't know if you celebrate it much on the States (it's a spanish tradition), but in a lot of places it's the equivalent of your aprils fools day. Don't get me wrong, I would love the 499$ Mac, but when something seems to good to be true, it probably is.

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