Adobe Systems announces the availability of Flash Player 10, the latest version of its RIA (rich Internet application) creation and d-ployment platform. Flash Player 10 comes just a day after its primary competitor, Microsoft Silverlight 2, was released to the Web.Following directly on the heels of the release of the latest version of its primary competition,
Adobe Systems announced the availability of Flash Player 10.
Microsoft announced the impending release of Silverlight 2
on Oct. 13 and then made the technology available on Oct. 14. Then on
Oct. 15, Adobe announced the availability of Flash Player 10, the
company's software for creating RIAs (rich Internet applications),
interactive content and high quality video to users across multiple
browsers and major operating systems. Flash competes directly with
Microsoft's Silverlight.
Tom Barclay, senior product marketing manager, Platform Business Unit, Adobe Systems, said Adobe Flash Player 10
delivers enhancements and new features such as new support for custom
filters and effects, native 3-D transformation and animation, advanced
audio processing, and GPU hardware acceleration. In addition, the new
release builds on Adobe's expertise with text to deliver a new text
engine that provides interactive designers and developers with more
text layout options and better creative control.
Barclay said Flash Player 10 is being made available at the same time as Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), which takes advantage of Flash Player 10 technology.
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