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By tim, on December 29th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter2011 felt like a pivotal year in technology. What was pivoting? Well, users are pivoting away from networks and PCs and towards cloud and devices. The obvious loser is Microsoft, which owns PCs and networks but is a distant follower in devices and has mixed prospects in the cloud. Winners include Apple, Google, Amazon,
…continue reading ITWriting.com awards 2011: ten key happenings, from Nokia’s burning platform to HP’s nightmare year
By tim, on December 19th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe has told a group of Flex developers, invited to San Francisco for a special reconciliatory summit following the sudden announcement that Flex is moving to the Apache Foundation, that Flash Catalyst will be discontinued. Developer Fabien Nicollet was there and posts:
CS5.5 version of Catalyst is the latest version of Flash Catalyst. It
…continue reading Adobe discontinues Flash Catalyst, clarifies Flex and Flash Builder futures
By tim, on December 10th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft has has announced the release of Silverlight 5.0.
Silverlight is a cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for Windows and Mac. It is relatively small size – less than 7MB according to Microsoft, though the Mac version seems to be bigger, with a 14MB compressed setup .dmg and apparently over 100MB once installed:
Never
…continue reading Silverlight 5 is done. Is Silverlight also done?
By tim, on November 9th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe is stating that mobile Flash will no longer be developed:
Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with
…continue reading What next for Adobe Flash? Think runtime not plugin
By tim, on October 14th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterThe unstated theme of Adobe MAX 2011 last week was this: what is the future of Flash? The issue being that with HTML 5 ascendant and Apple wrecking the idea of Flash as an ubiquitous web plug-in, should Adobe be frantically retooling its design tools for HTML and apps, or does Flash still have
…continue reading Adobe MAX 2011 and the future of Flash
By tim, on October 5th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterThe Sneaks session at Adobe MAX is always fun as well as giving some insight into what is coming from the company, though note that these are research projects and there is no guarantee that any will make it into products.
This time we also got commentary from Rainn Wilson, an actor in
…continue reading Sneak Peeks at Adobe MAX 2011 … and that annoying updater
By tim, on October 4th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI took a quick look round the exhibition here at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, and was intrigued to see crowds round the Barnes & Noble Nook stand, a newcomer to Max.
Barnes & Noble has its own app store for Color Nook, the AIR runtime is on the device, and in fact
…continue reading Developers keen to get apps on Barnes & Noble Nook
By tim, on September 27th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI attended Microsoft’s Mix event in March 2010, where Microsoft gave us the first detailed preview of Windows Phone 7 from the developer perspective. At that time, Microsoft made it clear that the Adobe Flash plug-in would not be supported in the first release, but implied that it would follow.
Did Microsoft ever
…continue reading The Adobe Flash and Windows Phone 7 mystery
By tim, on September 21st, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe has announced that Flash 11 and AIR 3 will ship in early October.
There are significant changes in this release.
Flash gets Stage 3D (previously codenamed Molehill), a set of low-level 3D APIs, GPU accelerated where hardware allows, which will make console-like 3D graphics and games possible in Flash. Stage 3D wraps DirectX
…continue reading Adobe to ship Flash 11 and AIR 3, repositions Flash vs HTML 5
By tim, on August 26th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe’s Andrew Shorten has posted on the future of Flex, the developer-oriented tool for building applications for the Flash runtime.
This is one of the clearest statements I have seen from Adobe that recognises that the role of Flash on the web is diminishing:
There are countless examples where, in the past, Flex was
…continue reading Adobe says role of Flex and Flash has changed, makes play for mobile
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