Microsoft Adobe Merger?

Talk of Microsoft buying Adobe? To sort out the 'Apple problem'.
With every studio and freelancer I've ever been in contact with using Adobe products on Macs, this sounds like the ultimate nightmare for any Mac user.
If the takeover of Interakt by Adobe was anything to go by - you've got 2 years to stop using OSX and switch to Windows! And again, the users are the loosers?

I disagree.
Adobe and MS work together on many levels while Adobe and Apple have been at war for years. Also worth pointing out, Apple is no longer a computer company, it's a consumer electronics company while MS is, like Adobe, a software company. Just look at recent history. From Final Cut competing for the desktop video editing market to Apple's stance on Flash there's no way Apple having anything to do with controling Adobe could be a good thing.
MS, on the other hand could leverage Adobe by better intergrating PDF into all of it's products and would likely do a better job of marketing than Adobe does on its own.
A few other things to think about.
1. MS has lots of cash and deep pockets.
2. MS has very little in the way of competition in any of Adobe's markets
3. MS, contrary to what many Mac fans think, produces stable software with consumer friendly activation schemes. My only beef is the wide berth that they give to OEMs to install Windows with all kinds of crap on under powered machines.
4. MS understands software. While they may not be developing anything overly original, that's where having Adobe engineers at their disposal could come in rather handy.
AFAIC, if someone were to buy Adobe I'd far rather see MS than Apple as that buyer.
And just for the record, while I use both Mac and Windows, I far prefer Windows 7 over Snow Leopard.
Finally, there's no reason, IMO, to think anything is going to come of this any time soon but don't let your emotions cloud the issues. MS would be a far better partner for Adobe than Apple, mostly because they're already a partner while Apple is more of an adversary.
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