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Depends who they are targeting in the market.
I tend to agree the current users will be tough to change, but why assume MS is after such a small market?

Having worked with the pre-beta and beta versions of their new graphics suite I find it outstanding in many ways. The ability to work in both vector and bitmap at the same time simply ROCKS!!! (Something Photoshop simply doesn't do.)

Consider how many people that are NOT graphics pros there are building art work for both documents and web sites and it's easy to see there is a huge untapped market for a product that reduces the complexity and generates great looking graphics.

If these people start using it and (like many MS products) it becomes the defacto standard the "pros" will follow along over time.

The other piece of the suite that few have seen is "Sparkle" and it's a killer app. Anyone that has ever done Flash animations is going to LOVE Sparkle.

I've been working with a few hundred beta users in a private news group and they are all dedicated Photoshop fans. While no one is saying throw Photoshop out, they are indeed saying this suite is a fantastic addition to their tool set.

That is all MS is really after isn't it? (Selling the product.) I don't know about you but most people I know that work in graphics have multiple tools and who knows how many plug ins for them. When they see a great tool that adds something they buy it.

Just remember WordPerfect - Word All it took was some time...
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Snicker  yyuko@... | 09/15/05
friend and foe, no cost R&D  sp29 | 09/15/05
how do you know they wont?  doh123 | 09/15/05
Priorities?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/15/05
Proof please  crash89 | 09/16/05
RE: Proof please  nightshade0143 | 09/16/05
Wow, less than 75% of desktops run Windows?  Otto_Delete | 09/16/05
RE: Wow, less than 75% of desktops run Windows?  nightshade0143 | 09/16/05
Otto_Delete provided a link.  crash89 | 09/16/05
Probably so.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/17/05
OSX is the number one flavor of Unix.  MacGeek2121 | 09/16/05
Or maybe the better one  John Zern | 09/16/05
Ummm....no.  marksashton | 09/16/05
Adobe Challenged  sp29 | 09/15/05
Easier said than done  tic swayback | 09/15/05
But you're forgetting one detail.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/15/05
Look at the bigger picture  tic swayback | 09/16/05
Both Quark and ID CS2 have issues.  MacGeek2121 | 09/16/05
Adobe  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/17/05
wow, the old illustrator/free hand big divide  theo_durcan | 09/17/05
Depends who they are targeting in the market.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/16/05
Professional Market  tic swayback | 09/16/05
I think you misunderstand...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/16/05
I'm not knocking their new product....  tic swayback | 09/16/05
Displacement???  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/16/05
Displacement was never your argument  tic swayback | 09/16/05
Most won't like it.  Rick_K | 03/27/06
What's it got to do with Photoshop?  Resuna | 04/16/07
Have you heard of Canvas?  MacGeek2121 | 09/16/05
What do you know about graphics?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/17/05
Microsoft is NOT going to try to directly compete with Photoshop  marksashton | 09/16/05
Never say never  tic swayback | 09/16/05
Good points  marksashton | 09/16/05
They'll have to open up that format  tic swayback | 09/16/05
It will be  marksashton | 09/16/05
They'll also have to be patient  tic swayback | 09/17/05
I can tell you exactly why PageMaker lost out to Quark  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/17/05
I wonder if  Roger Ramjet | 09/16/05
Absolutely  marksashton | 09/16/05
wait or use the technology today  jjanks | 09/16/05
What do you base that silly claim on?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/16/05
Bias. If you hate MS  John Zern | 09/16/05
Can save as .tif?  theo_durcan | 09/17/05

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