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May 9, 2008

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Microsoft offers Expression suite via Parallels

Posted May. 9, ’08, 6:26 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Apple » Rivals

Expression Suite Head-scratch inducing actions are Microsoft’s reason for being lately. Most recently, they announced offering their Expression Professional Subscription in June would be available for $999. At one point, the original path based drawing tool Expression was a Mac native product. Now, only Expression Media (formerly known as iView Media Pro is a Mac product. The Microsoft solution? Run everything in virtualization.

Clearly, Microsoft has made a mistake here. The mistake is forgetting to rip Mac compatibility out of iView Media Pro Expression Media. How they could be that forgetful is beyond me. Recently, company after company has figured out ways to maintain the same application on multiple platforms, whether it’s by using an assisting technology like Qt or coming up with their own solution. These aren’t gigantic corporations.

Microsoft on the other hand can’t even maintain feature parity on their cashcow flagship products like Office (VBA support?). Microsoft has just taken that final step and included Parallels, effectively throwing their hands up in defeat. Considering the disaster that is Vista, maybe it’s time for a major management overhaul in Redmond because clearly something is broken (I’ll give you a hint, they’re including Windows XP in addition to Vista in the bundle; says something, doesn’t it?).


1 Comments

nw_mike Author Profile Page said:

I've got a better idea. Sell off all their assets and give the money back to their shareholders! I swear, their *support* of the Mac platform is bi-polar!

May 9, 2008 8:16 AM

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