Microsoft prepares to march into Adobe territory with its forthcoming suite of graphics and web development software.

You can be proud of an interface you developed, but this is taking it too far.

In conjunction with several of their other top-of-the-line software application upgrades, discreet have released the long-awaited combustion 3. Unique in some of its features and price point, combustion seems to have been searching for its market-place slot. Sharing the code, tools and quality of its bigger siblings, flame, inferno and smoke, combustion has, in the last two years, pulled its price down from 10 thousand dollars to around two thousand.

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Useful new features and a total interface overhaul make this the best Office ever.

Useful new features and a total interface overhaul make this the best Office ever.

Microsoft finally recognises that web authoring needs a standards-compliant tool, albeit on its own terms.

HDV support and seven video tracks make this a massive upgrade, but only for the plus version.

This is a capable and free web editor, suitable for users with some editing know-how

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Director 8 Shockwave Studio is now the platform of choice for those sites determined to provide the richest possible Web experience

Microsoft’s Tech.Ed conference gives us more information on security, UMPCs, Windows Mobile 6, Exchange 07, pirates and cats than we could have asked for.

It sets out to create photo-realistic 3D models from 2D photos and illustrations, with the barest of tool sets and minimum user input.

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