Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey & more prizes!

We are pleased to announce the launch of “Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey!” The purpose of this survey is to understand how you create content, collaborate with peers, and distribute the content to end users. We want to understand what tools you use, how you use them and how they can be improved for your needs.
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It does not matter if you use Adobe products or not. As long as you are a Tech Comm professional, we want to hear your opinion. Also, after the survey is over, we will be sharing some of the key insights from the survey on our Tech Comm blog, for everyone to access. So, please take the survey, influence the direction of Adobe Tech Comm products and win some cool prizes.
We are definitely listening!!
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thanks,
Kapil Verma

A key challenge that Adobe is facing with FM and TCS, and that the survey did not really focus on, is platform strategy (other than cloud-based).
FM runs only on MS Windows today. MS has made a possibly fatal mess of Windows (and the x86 PC market) with Window 8. The nearly $1B write-off for Surface slabs, and the sad story on the Surface app catalog, strongly suggests that Windows has zero future on ARM.
For customers who insist on running an app locally, FM/TCS needs another place to run. The obvious candidates are MacOS, where FM used to run, and Linux, where FM briefly ran. Unix, where FM sort of still runs (FM8 is still available for Solaris) is probably out of the picture.
Mac might be the leading choice, as CS runs native there today.
A return to Linux probably would imply that whatever is ported also runs on Android. Adobe has their toes in that water, with Photoshop Express, but I'm not sure that Android is fully featured enough to be used as a desktop content creation platform.
But the real question is: what do the paying customers want?
The survey asked one incomplete question on that.
Whatever the platform, the whole of TCS needs to run on it, plus Photoshop.

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