Top leaders from Microsoft and Adobe have met to discuss what is the best way to deal with the main enemy of Apple, and it may be appropriate for Microsoft to acquire Adobe, reports The New York Times.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen met to discuss "Apple and the company has control over the mobile market, and how the two companies can cooperate in the fight against Apple, according to an anonymous source to the New York Times.
Microsoft has refused to comment on this, but Adobe confirms in a statement that Ballmer and Narayen has met. "Adobe and Microsoft have many millions of customers around the world, and the heads of the two companies meet and then. But we do not comment on timing or subject of their private meetings," said Adobe.
As Apple still wins more developers and users with iPad and iPhone, Adobe and Microsoft are in danger of being pushed aside in the mobile market, which is the most interesting area for today's software developers.
Microsoft has tried and largely failed, to create enthusiasm for the earlier versions of its mobile software, and Adobe is under severe pressure after Apple decided not to allow the Adobe Flash applications on their devices.
Ballmer and Narayen discussed including Apple's ban on Flash, reports the New York Times.
Another topic of discussion was whether Microsoft is simply going to buy Adobe. Microsoft considered this several years ago, but withdrew in the interests of competition law, according to Times. But now that Microsoft no longer has such a dominant position as previously, it may have opened up the possibility that Microsoft might buy Adobe to strengthen the fight against Apple.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen met to discuss "Apple and the company has control over the mobile market, and how the two companies can cooperate in the fight against Apple, according to an anonymous source to the New York Times.
Microsoft has refused to comment on this, but Adobe confirms in a statement that Ballmer and Narayen has met. "Adobe and Microsoft have many millions of customers around the world, and the heads of the two companies meet and then. But we do not comment on timing or subject of their private meetings," said Adobe.
As Apple still wins more developers and users with iPad and iPhone, Adobe and Microsoft are in danger of being pushed aside in the mobile market, which is the most interesting area for today's software developers.
Microsoft has tried and largely failed, to create enthusiasm for the earlier versions of its mobile software, and Adobe is under severe pressure after Apple decided not to allow the Adobe Flash applications on their devices.
Ballmer and Narayen discussed including Apple's ban on Flash, reports the New York Times.
Another topic of discussion was whether Microsoft is simply going to buy Adobe. Microsoft considered this several years ago, but withdrew in the interests of competition law, according to Times. But now that Microsoft no longer has such a dominant position as previously, it may have opened up the possibility that Microsoft might buy Adobe to strengthen the fight against Apple.
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