Microsoft hires Adobe design tool leader
eWeek | at | by Mike
Mark Hamburg, a key player on Adobe Photoshop, leaves Adobe for Microsoft.The competition between Microsoft and Adobe heated up somre more when Microsoft scored a key hire from its competitor.
Mark Hamburg, who had been chief architect of Adobe Photoshop and who launched the Adobe effort that became Adobe Lightroom, resigned from Adobe after 17 years and is joining Microsoft.
In a blog post April 25, Martin Evening, who follows Adobe, said Hamburg ?joined Adobe in the fall of 1990, not long after Photoshop 1.0 was released and was instrumental in devising many of the "wow" features we have all come to love and rely on daily when we work with Photoshop."