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• Adobe e-doc format under siege

  Adobe Systems' portable document format, long a de facto Internet standard, is under fire from competitors looking to muscle in on the electronic document market.

• Adobe: No DNG turf war with JPEG XR

  Adobe Systems' Digital Negative (DNG) format isn't a competitor to JPEG XR, a format Microsoft created as a higher-end replacement for conventional JPEG, an Adobe executive has predicted.

• Microsoft's JPEG rival to become a standard?

  Microsoft's HD Photo format could soon become a standard, boosting sales of its Windows Vista operating system which includes built-in support for the JPEG alternative.

• Microsoft to support PDF in Office 12

  Microsoft will enable people to publish documents in the Adobe PDF format with Office 12, a company product manager said on Saturday.

• Microsoft gunning for Adobe's PDF format?

  When Bill Gates showed off the new Metro document format in Longhorn at a hardware conference last week, some analysts were quick to call it a PDF killer.

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  Adobe snaps up Business Catalyst

  Adobe's push into web-based services has delivered a windfall for Australian entrepreneur Bardia Housman, who quietly sold his company Business Catalyst to the US software maker at the start of September.

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• Olympics are a boon for Silverlight

  Here's the way things work at Microsoft. After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst critics, allowing management to get on with business of crushing rivals. But I'll be first to acknowledge that Silverlight breaks with that pattern.

• Q&A: Adobe on taking on services and Microsoft

  Much of the future success of Adobe Systems hinges on the work done by its Platform Business Unit, which is headed by Kevin Lynch, the company's chief software architect.

• Adobe plots its path on the Web

  Best known for apps like Photoshop, Adobe is relying on Kevin Lynch to break out of the shrink-wrapped software business.

• Is Windows still relevant?

  In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic.

• Microsoft and Adobe to square off?

  In digital documents, Web applications and image editing, Adobe has a healthy head start. But Microsoft is making some noise.

Reviews (161)

• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (Beta)

  Adobe's latest incarnation of Acrobat is top of the line, highly featured software. Just make sure you need all the bells and whistles before you pay the AU$999 price tag.

• Adobe Media Player 1.0

  Adobe's Media Player is an excellent application that is beautifully designed and easy to use. Shame about the currently available content.

• Adobe Photoshop Express beta

  Adobe recently released a beta of their on-line version of Photoshop based on flash Photoshop Express. Despite terms of use that gives Adobe the rights to your photos, we think the beta version shows promise.

• Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

  For composing long PDF packages at an office that requires security and wants to use the new digital forms, Acrobat 8's got the goods, but it's overkill if you only seek to make short PDF files.

• Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium

  Adobe CS3 Production Premium is ideal if you handle a mix of design, animation and editing tasks for video, the Web, and mobile gadgets.

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