Adobe Flash CS3 Professional For Mac
Downloads Designers and developers working on both Macintosh and Windows systems depend on Flash and the ubiquitous Adobe Flash Player software to ensure their content reaches the widest possible audience. Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software is the most...
[January 2, 2008, 9:46]
Microsoft Moves Flash Rival Into Spotlight
News Microsoft's answer to Adobe Systems' Flash Player has an official name — Silverlight — and a coveted target audience: media and entertainment companies bringing video to the web. At the NAB Show, Adobe plans to announce the Adobe Media Player...
[April 17, 2007, 12:26]
Adobe Brings High Definition To Flash Videos
News The updated Flash Player will also be able to take advantage of hardware acceleration in most PCs' graphics cards and is optimised for dual-core processors, said Mark Randall, chief strategist for dynamic media at Adobe.
[August 21, 2007, 8:37]
Microsoft Extends Silverlight Beyond Windows
News At the Mix07 web developer and designer conference, Microsoft executives said the company will allow .Net developers to create applications for Silverlight, its alternative to Adobe Systems' Flash format.
[May 1, 2007, 17:33]
Windows XP: The Big Squeeze?
News The long list of new features potentially puts an even longer list of companies in Microsoft's crosshairs, including Adobe Systems, Apple Computer, AOL Time Warner, Corel, InterVideo, MGI, Netopia, Network Ice, RealNetworks, Roxio, Ulead, Zone...
[May 21, 2001, 14:02]
Adobe Releases Flash Player 9 For Linux
News Although the JavaScript engine is a major component, Adobe has not released other parts of the Flash Player, including its graphics rendering, networking and media-handling engines, said Pam Deziel, Adobe's director of platform product marketing.
[January 18, 2007, 8:25]
Microsoft Squares Up To Adobe With Design Suite
News Like Adobe's Flash player, WPF/E software is a download for running web applications with media such as video and graphics. Microsoft is building a suite of products for web designers and creative professionals that should step up its challenge to...
[December 5, 2006, 8:49]
Just A Flash In The Web Video Pan?
News Macromedia, whose shareholders will vote on a proposed acquisition by Adobe on 24 August, released the Flash 8 public beta earlier this month. Microsoft defended the comparative bulk of Windows Media Player, saying the software does a number of...
[August 2, 2005, 16:30]
Will Macromedia's Flash Plans Cripple The Web?
News Lynch noted that Macromedia has freely published the specifications for SWF, the main file format for Flash content, since 1998, allowing dozens of software makers -- including Macromedia's chief rival, Adobe -- to create tools for authoring Flash...
[April 2, 2002, 10:00]
Microsoft Silverlight Coming To Nokia Mobiles
News For people with compatible devices, it means they will be able to see content, notably video, written for Silverlight, which Microsoft is pushing as an alternative to Adobe's Flash Player. Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing...
[March 4, 2008, 11:43]
Countdown: WindowsMe Marches On
News These include apps such as Adobe Systems' PageMill and Premiere, AOL 5.0, Encarta Atlas, Norton AntiVirus 5.0, and Word 2000. The latest build includes Microsoft's recently introduced Windows Media Player 7 code as part of the base product.
[April 3, 2000, 9:13]
Microsoft, Adobe Squabble Over PDF
News Microsoft is bracing for a legal battle in Europe with Adobe Systems, following a breakdown in negotiations last week over the use of Adobe's PDF technology in Microsoft's Office applications suite. Microsoft, which last October announced it would...
[June 5, 2006, 15:40]
New Virus First To Infect Macromedia Flash
News Just as we have seen a first Adobe Acrobat file infector and the first AutoCAD file infector, this is just a new way to get into the PC," Sophos' Cluley said. It's only when a Flash file or movie is played on a PC through a standalone player...
[January 9, 2002, 9:34]
Apple Software Heads For Hollywood
News Apple's Studio Pro update comes the same day that Adobe Systems, also appearing at the convention, offers its own DVD production software. But the two products won't compete head to head; Adobe's Encore will only work with the Windows operating...
[April 7, 2003, 15:15]
Office, Vista Changed In Wake Of Adobe Threat
News Microsoft is making changes to the next versions of both Office and Windows as part of an effort to head off a legal challenge from Adobe Systems. The software maker is unilaterally making changes to both Office 2007 and Windows Vista in an effort...
[June 5, 2006, 9:10]
Adobe Player Brings Flash Videos To Desktop
News Not content with having a dominant position in web video, Adobe Systems on Monday is expected to launch Adobe Media Player for playing Flash videos offline. At the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas next week, Adobe is expected...
[April 16, 2007, 9:57]
IE Upgrade Cuts Off QuickTime
News Other popular software programs, including RealNetworks' RealPlayer, Adobe Systems' Acrobat Reader and Macromedia's Shockwave player, appear to work normally with the browser upgrades. Apple Computer this week said it is trying to fix a problem...
[August 16, 2001, 9:38]
