Adobe & Microsoft . . . in battlespace videography!

In recent posts we criticized Microsoft new XMS based programs for incompatibility issues with Adobe PDF. This is only the tip of the iceberg.

We went to WindowsBBS to get some answers as to how to fix these issues. The conversation kept getting more and more interesting. We got so interested in the Microsoft approach to media cataloging that we are now testing their iView system. FWIW iView appears to be the best catalog software we have yet tested. Wake up Adobe!

Vidiots.us now predicts a full scale corporate war between Adobe & Microsoft. Left unchallenged Microsoft will attempt to replicate the entire Adobe toolkit (#2 software manufacturer in the world) using the same OS integration technique it used to eradicate Netscape.

Forget Photoshop, After Effects, Flash, Premiere, Illustrator, Acrobat etc.
Microsoft will have a simple solution for all your videography tasks.

Scary. Possible? Happening.

What's really interesting, is that according to Bill Gates latest speech . . . Internet to revolutionize TV in 5 years: Gates the man who had the vision to parlay DOS into the world's largest computer software empire is clueless that he is already living in the "Age of Videography", which will be decidedly open source.