Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, recently showed up with a small entourage of deputies at Adobe’s corporate offices in San Francisco to hold a secret meeting with Adobe’s chief executive, Shantanu Narayen.
The meeting, which lasted over 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 partner in the battle against Apple. A possible acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft were among the options.
This would be a huge shift in the computing industry. Adobe has been a powerhouse since the golden age of the early 1980s. A world without Adobe is one that I’m not sure I’m ready to ponder. If this is true, it really shows how far Adobe has sunk.
Microsoft InDesign feels wrong, while Microsoft Flash and Microsoft Shockwave seem oh so right. I think this would make Photoshop for Mac even more unstable. If that were possible.
[via Mac Rumors]