M$ Tries to Play catchup with the art folks

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:18 am

M$ latest acquisition, but it still can't touch Illustrator.

You can also download the previous version from the previous version link - I don't know if it has a time lock like Acrylic does.

Post by **miftah** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:38 am

I played with it at a friends house last week. Kind of decent, but its apparent the best things about it are standing on the shoulder of Adobe. Further, its as obvious as ever how Microsoft just doesn't "get it." Its interface is clunky and while it tries to do two things at the same time, it does neither as well as the two seperate Adobe applications it means to make irrelevent. It acts and looks like a toy, instead of the work tools that Adobe makes.

It will succeed somewhat with MS-heads who don't know any better. At worst, it will steal some of the piracy traffic from Adobe on the P2P networks (and not much of it). No one who spends money on software would actually choose this over the industry standards.

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:59 am

No, it's just a matter of being able to afford the industry standard.

Post by **miftah** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:09 am

Well, I suppose that's more a question of what industry you're in. I'm talking about buying the tools that allows one to work in graphic design. I'm not trying to be a snob about this, but the bottom line is that you buy the standard tools if you are interested in being in the industry. And besides, buying software is like buying a new car: Only idiots and the wealthy pay list price.

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:41 am

I never paid list for any of the M$ software I have.

I'll get there eventually.

dribbles · Post by **dribbles** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:52 am

apparently i am from Tajikistan and my city is ;'k;fjlkd on their registration form.

If its free and bundled with windows id be intrested. saves bandwidth on my internet connection

also when is Visual C++ 2005 comming out? taking forever zzzzzzzz

Post by **bio** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:29 pm

dribbles wrote:apparently i am from Tajikistan and my city is ;'k;fjlkd on their registration form.

Are you seriously from there?

If so... that's very cool!

dribbles · Post by **dribbles** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:02 pm

very cool indeed.

as a side note i also had to register to download the shockwave + flash player standalone ie no internet connection file. i type the same sort of stuff and it had to be "approved". they approved it

what kind of people work there?

btw ultimate spam address me@me.com

Post by **bio** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:06 pm

dribbles wrote:btw ultimate spam address me@me.com

Heh... I always use the address bdole@congress.gov

Bob Dole probobly hates me (and I'm good with that).