Adobe Ships Creative Suite 3 and other news

Flash CS3 Professional is available for purchase now along with other CS3 applications and CS3 suite versions, though I don’t see a trial download available yet. Rumors were that the big day would be April 20th, it turns out it was today. (UPDATE: Trial downloads became available on May 9th 2007).

If you have missed it, Flash Player 9,0,45,0 was released on 12th. This is the CS3 update and Flash CS3 ships with that version.

Another press release is about Adobe Media Player (Philo),which is being developed using Apollo and will be available before the end of this year. Me thinks it was time Adobe had an Adobe Media Player and it will probably help Apollo runtime distribution at first and then benefit from it later.

Todays ‘renaming’ news was a name change from MS. The ‘Flash killer’ WPF/E or WFP/E or something – god I never learned the name- got a very creative new name: Silverlight (There was nothing new released). MS didn’t stop there and while at it, renamed the acronym RIA as ‘Rich Interactive Application’! I didn’t realize this and read it (even the full phrase) as ‘Rich Internet Application’ until I saw JD’s post.

News from us: As we have previously announced, new version of ASV which supports Flash CS3/AS3 will be available in 3 months from today (All ASV 5 purchases since the start of March is considered as ASV 6 purchases for upgrade purposes). We may also have a beta earlier open to customers only. Our other applications, UAE and ASR, will also be available, hopefully in a very short time, after ASV release. Captionate version 3 will be available as a free upgrade in June.