‘Glorified (Microsoft) Paint’
p2pnet.net News:- “This preview just shows me an unpolished, poorly laid out graphics editor that acts more like a glorified (Microsoft) Paint, rather than any type of competition to Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.”
That`s a comment from someone who`s unimpressed by a beta of Microsoft`s upcoming Photoshop look-alike, code-named Acrylic.
It`s an an innovative illustration, painting and graphics tool that provides exciting creative capabilities for designers working in print, web, video, and interactive media, say Bill and the Boyz on the beta site.
It’s based on Expression, a graphics application Microsoft acquired with its 2003 purchase of Hong Kong company Creature House, “the software giant said on its Web site,” says a CNET News post, which also quotes the disgruntled beta tester and says Microsoft describes the app, currently available as a 77MB free download which requires registration, as “bringing together pixel-based painting and vector graphics features.”
“These capabilities will put the product squarely in the market currently dominated by software maker Adobe Systems with its pixel-focused Photoshop and vector-driven Illustrator products,” notes CNET.
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CNET News – Microsoft offers beta of Adobe rival, June 10, 2005
extend British copyrights – UK ‘Public Domain’ blow, p2pnet, June 6, 2005
June 10th, 2005 at 9:09 pm
I am so fed up with Microsucks protection schemes, constant changes in OS to have you buy yet again, and security holes that I can’t see straight.
I spent a lot of time learning the ins and outs of Windows and how to get around the lockdowns of much of what they don’t wish you to remove. All that does is ensure that those security holes that you would be better without remain. Simply, this computer user has had enough! I have finally decided to abandon their “product” for something more secure and stable; Linux.
June 11th, 2005 at 6:15 am
For the first time I am running linux. Admittedly it isn’t the full blown, on the hd program but it is linux all the same. Today after writing this I downloaded Knoppix, which runs on the cd without having to install as a try out. Seeing what is in the small package, I am a sold customer that it doesn’t take any sort of wizard to run it and that the program is near windows in its functions and its uses. Later I will go for a more permanent installation. Even spell check is here in the internet browser. Best of all, it is free!
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