Microsoft Buying Adobe? • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft Buying Adobe?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:10 PM UTC

dbrannan wrote: post #2

I've often wondered why Apple doesn't buy Adobe, kill all development for PCs, and leave Microsoft high and dry in the creative market. Just saying...

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Re: Microsoft Buying Adobe?

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Post by lallysingh » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:10 PM UTC

MichaelApproved wrote: post #28

Could they be doing this so flash 11 includes silverlight support?

Microsoft Flashlight?

Re: Microsoft Buying Adobe?

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Post by rgrieselhuber » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:10 PM UTC

An interesting move from an analytics perspective. They'd get Omniture and valuable data about the biggest advertising budgets spent online.

Re: Microsoft Buying Adobe?

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Post by rfolstad » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:12 PM UTC

Microsoft wants to bundle flash into their web browser and phones just like google?!

Re: Microsoft Buying Adobe?

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Post by rbanffy » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:13 PM UTC

napierzaza wrote: post #4

My god, with them together, what great software will they make!

Think of what great patent lawsuits would they make!

Re: Microsoft Buying Adobe?

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Post by icey » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:13 PM UTC

cryptoz wrote: post #8

"Microsoft Flash". shudder

There is something to that - Microsoft has been spending a lot of money and resources trying to encourage Silverlight adoption. One way to do that might be to buy the rights to Flash.

Re: Microsoft Buying Adobe?

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Post by d2viant » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:13 PM UTC

threepointone wrote: post #42

As a thought: If it does happen, I can totally see an MS Office GRAND DELUXE edition that puts together Office and CS. And I would guess that the price would be less than the sum of the individual packages. That wouldn't be too bad, really.

They haven't even included Visio in the Office bundle yet, so I doubt they'd put Photoshop in there.

Re: Microsoft Buying Adobe?

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Post by sliverstorm » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:14 PM UTC

pseudonym wrote: post #9

protomyth wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, to be fair, maybe Flash for OS X would actually improve. On the other hand, Flash for Linux might meet with an unfortunate accident.

50-100% processor usage isn't already an unfortunate accident?

Look on the bright side- it doesn't yet melt your CPU. Under MS's guiding hand, I'm sure it would figure out how.

Re: Microsoft Buying Adobe?

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Post by mootothemax » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:14 PM UTC

I'm not sure I understand: how would a merger between these two companies get past the regulators? I doubt they'd let Apple jump into bed with Adobe, let alone Microsoft...

Re: Microsoft Buying Adobe?

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Post by mattparcher » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:15 PM UTC

From the original NYT report [1], the discussions seem to be less about acquisition, and more about “Apple and its control of the mobile phone market and how the two companies could partner in the battle against Apple.”

Indeed, acquisition is a real and fascinating possibility, but surely there are many other ways they could work together to fight Apple, if that is what they want to do.

[1] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/microsoft-and-adobe...