November 10, 2003, 23:42
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This sounds like fun
Microsoft: if you can't buy them, beat them
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According to reports, Microsoft is developing a new graphics and animation toolset for its next operating system. The tool is already being referred to internally as a Flash-killer - but such claims should be taken with a pinch of salt, as much could change in the next three years.
If you can't buy them, beat them seems to be the message coming out of Microsoft. Microsoft is working on a graphics and animation toolset codenamed Sparkle, for its next operating system that integrates with the .NET runtime environment, according to reports.
Sparkle has given rise to talk inside Microsoft that it is a Flash or Director-killer, Macromedia's popular environments for creating and running rich multimedia content on PCs, devices and the web.
Reports of Sparkle have surfaced nearly a year after Microsoft was believed to be considering Macromedia for acquisition to significantly enhance Windows' scripting and graphics capabilities. Both companies refused to comment on a possible acquisition at the time.
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November 11, 2003, 00:18
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Microsoft will not stop until it completely controls the entire universe, will it?
"My Lord Gates, there's still a pinch of dust in Africa that we believe has not been crushed under our presence." "Send it a Wintel PC! Give it a beta of Windows! Hand it a grossly overpriced and incompatible Office program! Do not let it remain untouched!"
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November 11, 2003, 00:20
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November 11, 2003, 03:16
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I think Microsoft's next acquisition will be cotton candy vendors.
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November 11, 2003, 03:21
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I certainly hope they aren't planning on doing to Macromedia what they did to Netscape.
On second thought, maybe I do, when the antitrust watchdogs are staring. 
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November 11, 2003, 03:39
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Admit it: you email Asher every time you start one of these just to torture him...
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November 11, 2003, 03:43
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Re: This sounds like fun
Cool, even more development tools for .NET
I only wish it was here now.
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November 11, 2003, 04:20
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Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Admit it: you email Asher every time you start one of these just to torture him...
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Wow, that's really evil, Matt. Only you can think of that 
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