THE GROWTH OF ACRYLIC

The Evil Empire (Microsoft) is fighting back. Or maybe it is trying to take over the world. Either way, and probably the latter, it is working on a clone of Photoshop.

Naturally enough Microsoft didn't develop it by itself. It simply gobbled up the company which had. You can see for yourself by downloading a beta version of Acrylic, as it is known, from www.microsoft.com/products/expression.

There is some stupid tosh about having to sign up for a Microsoft Passport, a scheme which a while ago the Evil Empire tried to impose on all of us with a signal lack of success. My advice is to only ...