WinInfo Short Takes: Week of July 14
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Microsoft is world's biggest company again
Microsoft and General Electric (GE) continue to flip-flop in terms of market capitalization, as the world's biggest corporation. This week Microsoft is back on top, thanks to a tech-stock rally. Microsoft's market cap is now $294.4 billion, compared with $292.5 billion for GE. And, yes, you can start humming the opening notes to "The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)" now, if you're so inclined.
Adobe chooses Windows XP over Apple for Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Systems' decision last week to release its next high-end video-editing platform, Adobe Premiere Pro, only on XP garnered a lot of media attention, with Apple Computer fans claiming that Adobe was abandoning the Macintosh only because of
the quality of Apple's Final Cut Pro software. But as Adobe itself noted, the rationale behind making Premiere Pro an XP-only product was rooted in some commonsense observations. First, XP is the most stable and reliable platform for video editing. Second,
the Intel-based systems on which XP runs offer the highest performance. And third, the quality of Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series technologies lets Adobe's products support high-definition video and 7.1-channel surround-sound streaming audio.
Some other interesting notes...
- Microsoft donates to Iraqi relief
- Sun admits that it's the other high-profile SCO UNIX licensee
- Microsoft released a 64-Bit desktop before Apple. Well, Duh.
- Rest of the world wakes up to Windows XP's quality