I am sure we have benefitted from increased functionailty affrorded by Adobe's acquistion of Macromedia. It does mean that we can longer afford the latest versions as there is no competition to keep Adobe honest.
All we need now is for them to buy Quark, and then for the amorphous mass of creative tools to be bought by Microsoft.
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Why do so many (virtually all) software packages think that they are so important that they have to be started automatically every time the computer boots? What is the largest number of "speed access", "update check", "camera download" and whatever other background programs you have ever seen running? Of those, how many did you really need?
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