Free, Legal Downloads of Adobe CS2 Software

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http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html

Adobe is offering free, legal downloads of Creative Suite 2. Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.  The current version of CS is 6, but hey, free is free.  I downloaded Illustrator and InDesign to play with.

If you get any of these, remember that Windows and Mac OS X are different downloads for each product. And the serial numbers are different for Windows vs. Mac.  The serial numbers are on the download page, you will need the correct serial number for each download to install the programs.

Thanks, Adobe!

 

Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo

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Computers, google, microsoft, Software, yahoo

This NYT article starts with the sentence “Oh, how the mighty have fallen.”

A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is – New York Times via kwout

My own take is this is a desperate act, an admission that Google is dominating Microsoft in the state of the art area of online or so called “cloud” applications. MS, of course, still owns the desktop 😦 especially in larger organizations.

I don’t think this merger would work, even if it gets by the EU regulators who have seen MS as being anti-competitive in the past. The US regulators have been either asleep or for sale regarding MS’s behavior. These companies have very different cutures and technology bases.