Analyst Gartner believes Microsoft is planning to delay its new operating system again for political rather than technical reasons.
Adobe may look to the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) platform to launch an office productivity suite to take on Microsoft.
Google Docs, the online office suite from the search giant, now has some limited but still useful support for PDF files.
Adobe Systems' popular portable document format (PDF) has become the latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard.
Adobe Acrobat 8, which shipped two months before the January release of Windows Vista, can now run on Vista and Citrix 64-bit systems.
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.
Best known for apps like Photoshop, Adobe is relying on Kevin Lynch to break out of the shrink-wrapped software business.
The big, booming nation is much on the mind of Adobe's CEO. Then there are the little matters of Apple and Microsoft.
A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.
Developers wanting to use Microsoft's Office Open XML specification will need to brush up on their legal skills.
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.
With its streamlined tools, enhanced nondestructive editing capabilities, and better performance, Adobe Photoshop CS3 will look very attractive to almost any user.
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.
The group behind OpenOffice has released the first major update to the open-source challenger to Microsoft's Office.
Adobe's Acrobat 7.0 Professional brings new collaboration and usability features, some of which workgroups will find invaluable.
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