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Monday brought a pile of software news from Adobe and Microsoft, borne of two events that have historically been snoozers. This year, though, we should have seen it coming. I want to explain why Microsoft’s Ignite conference, which is ostensibly more about IT and consumers, turned out to be a much bigger deal than usual.
First, though: we should have seen it coming from Adobe too. It has been working up towards releasing Photoshop for the iPad Pro for some time — and it always has a few fun apps and announcements to go alongside it. Dami Lee is on the ground at Amazon’s event and has been filing many great reports, hands-ons, and interviews.
Both events reveal a common theme: supporting multiple computing platforms. Both Adobe and…