Microsoft and Adobe Accomodating Bloggers with New Software
Amit Chowdhry | Sunday October 8, 2006 | 499 views
Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) have included tools in their new software to facilitate the blogging experience. Adobe Systems has released Contribute® 4 and Microsoft plans to oust Frontpage with new software called Expression.
Contribute® 4 will allow “content authors can post and publish content to multiple websites and blogs from a single application or publish directly from within Microsoft Office applications. And because Contribute 4 works seamlessly with Macromedia® Dreamweaver® from Adobe, website integrity is not compromised — even when multiple authors update content across the site [Contribute® homepage].” Contribute® also allows blogger admins to set permission levels for its various users such as Edit and Publish powers. Oh! And one more thing! Currently, Contribute® supports blog publishers Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, but does not support Windows Live Spaces (Coincidence? Who knows? All we know is that Adobe isn’t too happy with Microsoft right now).
Microsoft Corp is moving forward in their web journey and has left Frontpage behind at the rest area to leave an empty seat for hitchhiker, Microsoft Expression®. Expression is currently in Beta and allows testers to download the “Community Technology Preview” [here]. Expression® looks similar to Dreamweaver® but has a wider array of features. There is a more detailed review of the software on [NewsFactor Network].
Adobe Contribute® 4 costs $149.00 or $79.00 for an upgrade, but the Microsoft Expression software release date has not been announced yet. One of the interesting concepts between the competition of Microsoft and Adobe is that both companies are interdependent. Adobe/Macromedia creates Dreamweaver® and Flash® which allows the importing of Microsoft Office documents and Microsoft’s [Zune website] and upcoming Soapbox video service depends on Flash®. Seems like a love-hate relationship between both companies, eh?
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