http://www.metafilter.com/tags/macrodobe Posts tagged with 'macrodobe' at MetaFilter. Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:39:17 -0800 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:39:17 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/57972/Microsoft%2DExpression <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron">Designing With Microsoft?</a> Evidently this is Microsoft's <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/expression-studio/default.mspx">attempt at competition</a> with 'Macrodobe', the strange, hybrid beast (<a href="http://daringfireball.net/2005/04/adobe_translation">lumbering?</a>) that is the combined Macromedia/Adobe merger. Microsoft <a href="http://reddevnews.com/news/devnews/article.aspx?editorialsid=144">has launched</a> a full suite of products taking aim at Dreamweaver, (<a href="http://www.thinkvitamin.com/reviews/dev/microsoft-expression-web-designer">is it better?</a>) Illustrator-Photoshop and <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2067545,00.asp">Flash</a>. For many designers who pretend to be developers (or vica versa) Microsoft's new "Expression" will be 3 or 4 orders of magnitude less relevant than that old Corel Suite. The central issue seems to be one of credibility: Can Microsoft escape the seemingly permanent "FrontPage" stigma, not to mention even <a href="http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/01/microsoft_takes_email_design_b.html">more recent</a> design community letdowns? tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.57972 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:39:17 -0800 adobe design macrodobe macromedia microsoft software thisisdrew