Saturday, June 11, 2005

Microsoft coming up with its own Graphic Editor

Microsoft Corp. has started public testing of a new graphics program designed to compete with Adobe Systems Inc.'s Photoshop and Illustrator products.
The Microsoft program, code-named Acrylic, can be used for digital painting, illustration and graphic design, the company said on its Web site yesterday. It's based on technology that Microsoft acquired in 2003 when it bought Creature House Ltd., a Hong Kong-based maker of graphic-design software.

So soon they'll be having an Anti-virus product, a pseudo-pdf format of their own, and a graphic program.As usual, Microsoft doesn't bother developing a unique product of their own, they simply buy an upcoming company and take their product forward.