...from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mcye_SAh0o&eurl=
The first half of this video is with the PhotoShop's Senior Product
Manager John Nack.
The second half is a demo of some of the interesting features
mentioned during the interview.
Wayne
..from:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs3/
For the first time ever, Adobe is delivering a widely available
Photoshop CS3 beta to enable customers to more easily transition to
the latest hardware platforms, particularly Apple's new Intel based
systems. The beta is available as a Universal Binary for the
Macintosh platform as well for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista
computers, with the final shipping release of Adobe Photoshop CS3
planned for spring 2007.
[...]
The Photoshop CS3 beta is available in English only but to Photoshop
CS2 users worldwide. It is available to licensed users of either the
Photoshop CS2 (full, upgrade, and education), Adobe Creative Suite 2
Standard or Premium (full, upgrade, and education), Adobe Production
Studio Standard and Premium (full, upgrade, and education), Adobe
Video Bundle (full, upgrade, and education) or Adobe Web Bundle
(full, upgrade, and education). You will need to provide your
Photoshop CS2, Creative Suite, Production Studio or Bundle serial
number in order to get a Photoshop CS3 beta serial number, enabling
you to activate the Photoshop beta and use it beyond the two-day
grace period.
---------------------------
....and from a "Welcome Letter" from the Photoshop Group Product
Manager:
December 15, 2006
Dear Adobe Photoshop Customer,
Welcome to the Adobe Labs site, a place where you might not have
expected to go to find the latest
version of Adobe Photoshop!
We’re taking the unprecedented step of making a beta version of
Photoshop CS3 available today,
primarily because we know that our Macintosh customers will
appreciate the opportunity to start
running Photoshop natively on the latest Intel based Macintosh
systems, months before the final
shipping version of the product is ready. Of course, we know that it
wouldn’t be fair to our Windows
customers to exclude them from this advance preview, so we’re
releasing the beta for you as well.
Our final Photoshop CS3 feature set is already largely determined,
based on input from thousands of
customers like you. Note that the beta version that we are releasing
today might not look exactly like
the final shipping version. There are still a few planned features
not yet implemented, and of course
some polishing and bug fixing we still need to work on. You’ll
however find a wealth of new features
to explore in the beta. I encourage you to take a look at our new
feature list for some ideas of what to
expect.
Ultimately, though, this beta release is less about showing off our
new features than it is about getting
native software to our customers as soon as we can. I hope you like
what you see, and that you decide
the upgrade is a great value when we release it later in 2007!
And as always, my team and I thrive on your feedback, and it will
certainly influence our plans for
Photoshop CS4 and beyond.
Regards,
Maria Yap
Group Product Manager
--------------------------
Adobe Labs Beta download site:
http://labs.adobe.com/
...from:
http://blog.smalldog.com/article/482/windows-vista-on-a-pc-vs-an-apple
Windows Vista on a PC vs. an Apple
By Jimmy(a)Smalldog.com
I’ve been playing with the RTM of Windows Vista for a couple weeks
now (available to businesses and MSDN users) and I’ve actually
enjoyed it quite a lot. The install process is quick and most of my
drivers were installed. I think I had to install the latest NVIDIA
drivers on my PC but other then that it caught everything else. It
even worked when I plugged the computer into my HDTV.
There was one major issue I came across though. It was my sound. I
have on-board nForce4 audio and it works really nice for the first 20
minutes or so. When I am in the middle of watching a movie or
listening to music it will start to sound really funky and crackles.
I’ve looked all over the internet for a fix and asked all my friends
who might know something about the issue. Apparently it was a known
issue and that NVIDIA would release some Vista compatible drivers.
Mind you Vista hasn’t been released to consumers yet. I am not really
sure what drivers were auto-installed when I initially installed
Vista but they weren’t very good.
I then tried to use my Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 PCI card and that was
a complete failure. I read multiple threads on the Creative message
boards that talked about installing some other driver called kX and
supposedly that would fix the issue but I couldn’t get it to work
whatsoever.
I then read on another website about how the Realtek drivers might
work, and without actually checking to see if my board was using the
Realtek chip I downloaded and installed the Realtek software and
installed it. It didn’t work at all so I was about to give up.
My last attempt was downloading the Vista RC1 drivers from NVIDIAs
website. I un-installed my current drivers and re-installed with the
RC1 drivers. I’ve been watching a movie in Media Center for 30
minutes or so now and I haven’t had any major issues. I did notice
that the sound got distorted when I was moving the volume up or down.
That was all on a PC. AMD Athlon64 3500+, 2GBs RAM, DFI LanParty UT
nF4, SATA Drives. I would have thought that it would have worked with
no hitches. Guess not. I had to go through ALL of that just to get my
sound working. I don’t think it would be proper to blame this on
Microsoft/Windows though. I think it’s the fact that NVIDIA hasn’t
provided me or other NVIDIA audio users with the appropriate drivers
for my sound card. Windows Vista is final, it’s ready to go out to
customers and NVIDIA isn’t keeping up with their drivers.
So where does Apple come in here…
I have Vista installed on 2 machines, the one in the previous
paragraph and this one; an Apple MacBook 2.0GHz Core Duo, 2GBs RAM,
80GB HDD.
My first attempt to install Windows Vista on a Macintosh was through
Parallels. It work perfectly fine minus the fact that I didn’t get
the Aero (glassy windows) effects. Other then that it worked great
and I had no issues with it.
I really wanted the pretty eye-candy so I installed Boot Camp
(v1.1.2) and popped in the Vista installation DVD. Rebooted and
installed Vista, no issues at all. I had made a drivers CD from the
Boot Camp application, so after the Vista install I stuck that in and
went through the drivers installation. No problem there either. Those
drivers are also meant for Windows XP not Vista, yet they worked
great for the most of it.
There’s only a couple things I know that aren’t working. These things
I didn’t even expect to work and seem more like “extras”. The iSight,
Bluetooth, double finger scrolling, screen brightness and volume
control via the F keys. It’s not like major things aren’t working.
Sound, airport, some Apple keyboard functions, Aero glass, Ethernet,
and battery functions are all working.
How is it that my Apple computer works 100x better with Windows Vista
then my PC?! I do hope that Apple releases some Windows Vista
compatible drivers for their computers. I see no reason why they
won’t although it may not be until January 30th, 2007 or later since
that’s when Microsoft will release Vista to consumers.
I am sure NVIDIA will be releasing an update for Vista soon enough.
...from:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?
command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=macintosh&articleId=9005873&taxono
myId=123
[...]
The case, filed in February 2000, charges that Microsoft used its
monopoly position to overcharge Iowans for its software. Held in the
Polk County District Court in Des Moines, it is one of two remaining
antitrust cases -- the state of Mississippi's case is the other --
brought by the U.S. government and multiple states against Microsoft
starting in the late 1990s.
In 2004, Microsoft settled a class-action lawsuit accusing it of
overcharging customers in California for $1.1 billion. That same
year, it was also hit by a $613 million fine by the European
Commission for monopolistic behavior for its free bundling of Windows
Media Player with Windows. Microsoft, which has appealed the ruling,
was hit by a further $356 million fine in October for failing to
comply with the ruling.
....As in past antitrust trials against Microsoft, much of the
evidence came in the form of e-mails from [James] Allchin [-
Microsoft's chief of development and other Microsoft executives.....
Longtime Windows development chief James Allchin wrote in a January
2004 e-mail to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and company co-founder
Bill Gates that the software vendor had "lost sight" of customers'
needs and said he would buy a Mac if he wasn't working for Microsoft.
"In my view, we lost our way," Allchin, the co-president of
Microsoft's platform and services division, wrote in an e-mail dated
Jan. 7, 2004. The e-mail was presented as evidence late last week in
the Iowa antitrust trial, Comes v. Microsoft Corp.
.....As in past antitrust trials against Microsoft, much of the
evidence came in the form of e-mails from Allchin and other Microsoft
executives. Ironically, Allchin himself is quoted in two internal
memos directing employees to get rid of all e-mails after 30 days.
"This is not something you get to decide," he wrote on Jan. 23, 2000.
"This is company policy. Do not think this is something that only
applies to a few people. Do not think it will be okay if I do this,
it hasn't caused any problems so far. Do not archive your mail. Do
not be foolish. 30 days."
[...]
