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Bungie was spun off successfully a couple years ago.
They still have to ship something successful by themselves after spin off to see if it was a successful spin off.
Photoshop & Flash would be covered by an MSDN subscription.
So, instead of dishing out $1000 for CS6, we need only enroll in BizSpark (or whatever Microsoft's next version of its ISV thing is called), and pay $400 for all our OS's, all our dev tools, and all our graphics stuff in one package. Now all they need to do is buy Codesmith, Red Gate and Jetbrains so that I never need to pay full price for software again.
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Most designers I know would work for McDonald's before they'd use Windows :)
I know you probably aren't entirely serious but people can and do change when their choices disappear. Fundamentalists may differ.
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Microsoft isn't stupid. They won't make Flash Windows only and they won't make Flash Windows Phone 7 only.
But continued Linux support is clearly a possible cancellation.
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Note, however, that those were all originally acquisitions. FCP was born at Macromedia and Apple purchased the product and hired the team. Shake came from the Nothing Real acquisition. Logic is from the Emagic acquisition.
Apple at that point would buy Pixelmator in a heartbeat and make its own product.
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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.
The last thing I need is a Microsoft FlashLight.
"Adobe, Microsoft expected to collapse into new black hole after getting nearly 90% of the world's shitty C++ together under one roof."
This has one major implication that makes me want to root for the deal to close: Photoshop & Flash would be covered by an MSDN subscription. So, instead of dishing out $1000 for CS6, we need only enroll in BizSpark (or whatever Microsoft's next version of its ISV thing is called), and pay $400 for all our OS's, all our dev tools, and all our graphics stuff in one package. Now all they need to do is buy Codesmith, Red…