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News (60)

• Adobe to pull Office rival out of AIR?

  Adobe may look to the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) platform to launch an office productivity suite to take on Microsoft.

• Why Vista may be delayed until Easter

  Analyst Gartner believes Microsoft is planning to delay its new operating system again for political rather than technical reasons.

• IBM bags $70m NSW wireless deal

  IBM has won the contract to build and supply the NSW Department of Education and Training's wireless network for 463 state schools.

• Adobe Acrobat adds Vista flexibility, remote printing

  Adobe Acrobat 8, which shipped two months before the January release of Windows Vista, can now run on Vista and Citrix 64-bit systems.

• Google Docs gets limited PDF support

  Google Docs, the online office suite from the search giant, now has some limited but still useful support for PDF files.

Features and Case Studies (14)

• 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.

• When standards don't apply

  A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.

• Chizen: Friends, foes and China

  The big, booming nation is much on the mind of Adobe's CEO. Then there are the little matters of Apple and Microsoft.

• The best CRM suite is...

  What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.

Reviews (68)

• 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.

• OpenOffice update finalised

  The group behind OpenOffice has released the first major update to the open-source challenger to Microsoft's Office.

• Adobe Photoshop CS3

  With its streamlined tools, enhanced nondestructive editing capabilities, and better performance, Adobe Photoshop CS3 will look very attractive to almost any user.

• 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.

• Acrobat 7.0 Professional

  Adobe's Acrobat 7.0 Professional brings new collaboration and usability features, some of which workgroups will find invaluable.

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