Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Adobe Kills GoLive

No more speculation, it's official.  Adobe announced that it has discontinued it's WYSIWYG web creation/editing program, GoLive (if you're old school, you might remember it as CyberStudio).  After Adobe's purchase of Macromedia back 2005 there were many questions about which products would be discontinued and which might be merged.  GoLive seemed to be in prime position for the chopping block since Macromedia's Dreamweaver was by far the better tool.  

As a side note, a friend at work attended Microsoft's Artist in Residency training (which, get this, they call AIR...doesn't Adobe have something by that name...?) where there was unofficial mention that Frontpage is also about to be discontinued.  It will be replaced by a Expression Web, part of their Expression Suite of programs.

For the whole story on the demise of GoLive, check this out

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