Full articleSteven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, recently showed up with a small entourage of deputies at Adobe’s offices to hold a secret meeting with Adobe’s chief executive, Shantanu Narayen.
The meeting, which lasted more than an hour, covered a number of topics, but one of the main thrusts of the discussion was Apple and its control of the mobile phone market and how the two companies could team up in the battle against Apple. A possible acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft were among the options.
Microsoft and Adobe to merge?
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Re: Microsoft and Adobe to merge?
I think a merger would severely hurt Adobe. It could potentially lock them into Windows. Though it would solve their pontential financial woesRon2K wrote:Full articleSteven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, recently showed up with a small entourage of deputies at Adobe’s offices to hold a secret meeting with Adobe’s chief executive, Shantanu Narayen.
The meeting, which lasted more than an hour, covered a number of topics, but one of the main thrusts of the discussion was Apple and its control of the mobile phone market and how the two companies could team up in the battle against Apple. A possible acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft were among the options.
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Re: Microsoft and Adobe to merge?
No MS NO!!! You are finally getting your act together with Win 7 and WinMo 7, please don't start using Adobe and their bloated software development methods!
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