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Considering for the past decade Microsoft has yet to release anything that would even resemble a competitor to Photoshop this could get interesting. However, considering the momentum Photoshop has with photographers and Lightroom is now just as much a staple application even as it comes up on version 2.0, Microsoft has miles of ground to cover. It seems to me the best they could hope to achieve, at least within the next 5 years is to gain some market share against Photoshop Elements and Paint Shop Pro. I can’t foresee a time when serious photographers are going to give up Photoshop or now Lightroom.
What’s Microsoft want with Adobe Photoshop guru Mark Hamburg, who recently joined the Redmond juggernaut?
Hamburg a programmer who has been part of the Adobe Photoshop team since version 2.0 and helped lead the Photoshop Lightroom one, is now a Softie, as News.com’s Stephen Shankland reported on April 28.
The official word from Microsoft is Hamburg will be working on unnamed “user experience” efforts. My bet is Hamburg will be instrumental in helping Microsoft bring to market its Photoshop Lightroom competitor, which is codenamed “SmartFlow.”
Microsoft’s competitor to Adobe LightRoom gets another champion
In a total reversal of what Windows and Macintosh users might expect, Adobe Creative Suite 4 will include 64-bit support for the Windows platform, but not for Mac.
Mac OS X users probably won’t get 64-bit support until CS5, the subsequent release of the graphics editing software, according to John Nack, Adobe’s Photoshop product manager.
Nack attributes this unanticipated state of affairs to Apple’s decision last year to halt development of 64-bit support for Carbon, a move which he says took Adobe and third-party developers by surprise. Adobe did make CS3 Intel-compatible, but kept Carbon as its core architecture.
Adobe CS4 will be 64-bit, but only on Windows
Adobe Systems has shared the first scrap of information about its next version of Photoshop, CS4, and it’s a doozy: there will be a 64-bit version of the photo-editing software, but only for Windows and not for Mac OS X.
Adobe generally keeps features in the Windows and Mac versions at a level of parity, but that wasn’t possible this time around because of a change Apple made last year to the Mac’s programming underpinnings, John Nack, Adobe’s product manager for Photoshop, said in an interview.
“We’re not going to ship 64-bit native for Mac with CS4,” Nack said. “We respect Apple’s need to balance their resources and make decisions right for that platform. But it does have an impact on developers.”
Next Photoshop will get 64-bit boost–on Windows only