You thought Microsoft was slow to the party getting Office Intel native. Adobe gets to take the prize for that one though. It has just recently made Shockwave native to Intel. I bet you didn’t even notice. I sure didn’t.
On the other hand, should I manage to find some esoteric website that decided Shockwave was the way to put out their content, I can now check it out without invoking Rosetta. That’s exciting. A little.
Version 10 will continue be available for PowerPC users, while version 11 is for all things Intel (running 10.4 or later natch).
I noticed. My toddler likes to play games on educational sites. Drove me crazy to discover that some of the games simply didn't work on my MacBook Pro because they were shockwave. She had to use my wife's G5 instead.
Good news.
Shockwave 11 has been available since the end of February 2008. The current version is just an update (11.0.3). I don't know where MacNN got their info from, but it is false.
mare's right. Shockwave has been Intel native for a while now.
They probably got confused because the listed change was on Intel compatibility, as it has been the last few versions.