p2pnet.net news:- Today is the day Adobe is slated to release a beta of AIR, formerly Apollo, designed to make web-native applications operate like desktop programs.

“The much-anticipated software, now called the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), is expected to introduce a new class of hybrid applications that meld the Web with the PC,” says ZDNet News.

A free AIR software development kit is online, as is the beta of Flex 3 for writing AIR applications, as well as Flash and HTML-based Web applications.

However. Bill and the Boyz are, “encroaching on the space Adobe currently reigns, however,” observes the IDG News Service.

“Microsoft has integrated a version of its .NET runtime into its new Silverlight Web technology which is aimed squarely at Adobe Flash. Silverlight can run video and multimedia applications cross-platform within different browsers,” it says.

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Also See:
ZDNet News – Adobe’s Apollo platform, now called AIR, goes beta, June 10, 2007
IDG News Service – Adobe Apollo becomes AIR, goes into beta, June 11, 2007

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