Adobe officially announced this morning that they have released Adobe CS3 in two flavors: Design and Web editions. In two days it will be exactly two years since Adobe acquired Macromedia, and now we finally have a whole new line of software. All of the products have rightfully been renamed to “Adobe” leaving the Macromedia name in the past.
It was almost a year ago when Microsoft and Adobe went head-to-head because of the built-in PDF functionality that Office 2007 was supposed to include. Adobe was obviously afraid that by Microsoft incorporating the ability to save a document as a PDF, that they could lose out on people needing their tools.
Adobe has just hit a huge milestone today by releasing an Alpha version of their much anticipated Apollo software. This is something that I had been waiting to hear, but are you wondering what the heck Apollo is? Here is how Adobe explains it in their press release:
Adobe recently announced their plans to release an online version of Photoshop, their popular image editing application. It will be a “light version” made using Flex, and is expected in the next six months.
Come Monday, an announcement is expected from Photobucket and Adobe in regards to a web-based video editing tool that Photobucket's users would be able to take advantage of. It would require Flash Player 9 to be installed, and would be found under Photobucket's media-sharing site.
