quote: Hello everyone,
Miriam Geller, the Senior Product Manager for Director, asked me to pass along this Director news update.
Regards,
Bob Tartar
Macromedia Developer Relations
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Bob -
Please pass on this quick update regarding a few Director related items:
1) Today, Macromedia announced a new version of Fireworks (as well as new versions of Dreamweaver and ColdFusion). Fireworks is included in Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio, and as soon as Fireworks MX ships, we´ll be including that version in the box, instead of Fireworks 4. In the meantime, anyone who purchases Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio after 3/30/02 is eligible for a free upgrade to Fireworks MX when it becomes available. A preview release is currently available at: http://www.macromedia.com/go/fwmxdl/
2) As stated previously, the Flash MX Asset Xtra for Director is in development. We are still on track for availability in the late-June timeframe. Stay tuned for more information.
3) Shockwave Player is available for Mac OS X and many of you have asked when (and whether) Director authoring will be made available for Mac OS X. The answer is YES, we´re working on a port of Director to Mac OS X. As you know, Director is a very powerful application with many years of coding poured into it. We´re working as fast as we can to port this code to OS X. We can´t discuss dates at this time, but again, stay tuned for more information.
4) Shockwave Player ubiquity is growing. Our installs are currently averaging over 350,000 new installs daily with another 200,000 existing users updating to the latest version of Shockwave Player. These robust install rates have brought Shockwave Player overall ubiquity to 70% of web users surveyed. Full details are at:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/shockwaveplayer/
Just wanted to make sure that everyone has the latest information for yourselves and for your clients. Thanks for your time.
Miriam
Regards,
Bob Tartar
Macromedia Community Manager