Seems like an interesting week of announcements. We have Adobe Creative Suite 4 Shipping, Silverlight 2.0 Released, and Apple announcing new MacBook and MacBook Pros:
And, heck, it is only Wednesday Morning :) Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe are stealing each other's thunder this week.
Along with Creative Suite 4, Adobe also released Flash Player 10, which apparently plays a pivotal role in Adobe Creative Suite 4. It will be interesting to see if Silverlight 2.0 or Flash Player 10 becomes an obvious winner or if they both peacefully exist for days to come. Either way, everyone wins from a little competition.
Per the Adobe Press Release on Flash Player 10:
“Adobe Flash Player 10 builds on the capabilities of the world’s most pervasive application runtime with new support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, advanced audio processing, and GPU hardware acceleration. Building on over 25 years of Adobe expertise with text, the highly flexible new text engine in Flash Player 10 provides interactive designers and developers with more text layout options and better creative control.
Adobe Flash Player 10 also extends the expressive capabilities of the Adobe Creative Suite® 4 product line (also available today – see separate press release) with new levels of Adobe Flash technology integration to streamline collaboration and enhance the design/develop workflow. Interactive designers and developers can create custom filters and effects with Adobe Pixel Bender™, which is the same technology behind many filters and special effects in Adobe After Effects® CS4 software. Developers targeting Adobe Flash Player 10 can use these filters, blend modes and fills to animate effects or change the effect on rich media content at runtime. Flash Player 10 also enables new capabilities and performance improvements in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, the industry’s most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive experiences. This includes easy-to-use 3D effects that enable designers to design in 2D and easily transform and animate in 3D.”
As I said, a lot of things happening this week :)