Opinion: Metro and Acrylic play in Adobe's space, but they aren't particularly menacing. If Microsoft was going to war, the assault would be more organized."So, what's this about Microsoft deciding it wants to compete with Adobe?"
The question came from a friend of mine, a Mac user who knows I follow Microsoft. Like seemingly all Mac business users, she's also an Adobe customer. Any threat to Adobe's Acrobat or Creative Suite would concern her greatly.
While I was aware of Microsoft's recent announcements of the Metro printing architecture and Acrylic, a freehand drawing program now in beta, I hadn't really investigated them. But, I promised I would, and here's my report:
On the Acrylic front, I spoke with Forest Key, a group product manager in Microsoft's developer organization.
It's interesting that this graphics product is being managed by the same group that's responsible for Visual Studio and Microsoft's other software development tools.
That could change, of course, but a real desktop application would be expected to live in a different product group.
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