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Adobe Releases Media Player beta
Adobe announces partnerships with content developers that it hopes will drive demand for Media Player, now scheduled to ship before July 2008.
Adobe announced Monday the acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity, the maker of a Web-based, multiuser word processor called Buzzword. Adobe also spun out the beta of a new service called Share that allows users to share and work on documents together online, as well as publish them to wikis or Web pages.
The multimedia software maker will also make the first beta of its upcoming Adobe Media Player available for public download at its Adobe Labs site, while announcing partnerships with a slew of content developers it hopes will drive demand for the free desktop product.
The final version of Adobe Media Player, originally scheduled for release by March of 2008, is now scheduled to ship sometime before July of that year, according to Jen Taylor, group product manager for Flash at Adobe.
The Media Player, which will be available for Windows and Mac OS X platforms, can also be set to receive RSS feeds and download videos according to user preferences for later offline viewing, said Deeje Cooley, an Adobe project manager.
