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by cryptoz 5731 days ago
"Microsoft Flash".

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"Adobe Flash"

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Microsoft Photoshop. Windows 8 only. :(
Ribbons in CS6
I have done a little PhotoShop. My GR has done a lot of CS4. I cant imaging how MS could make it less intuitive.
This would make me so happy. Photoshop is unbelievably unintuitive, and in my opinion, the Ribbon improved exactly that for Microsoft Office.
Microsoft Office. Windows only. Oh yeah, Mac too.
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.
Expect to be contacted by lawyers very soon.
Microsoft already has a problem with runtime fragmentation - their software and dev platforms are split between native and COM-based stuff (Windows, Office, most of their consumer apps), .NET/CLR based stuff (.NET, Silverlight, XNA, most of their enterprise apps) and increasingly JavaScript/web based stuff (IE, most of their web properties). The last thing they need is to add a fourth runtime to those.