[legitster]

A pretty bizarre suggestion.

Windows still has close to 80% market share (probably higher if you focus on Adobe's bread and butter - enterprise accounts).

Adobe would be an incredibly expensive purchase for Apple, and if would potentially lose 80% of it's value overnight if they tried to make the product proprietary. They may as well purchase a different random company like Autodesk or Palo Alto or Intuit for the same or less money.

And FWIW Adobe is highly intermingled with Microsoft already - they consume lots of each other's services and are much more aligned in business interests.

[PaulHoule]

Yeah, I can picture Microsoft buying Adobe in a fit of carelessness like they bought Activision. They will probably claim a record write-down on that one.