MACROMEDIA DELIVERS UPDATE OF MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 Free update improves stability, provides more comprehensive documentation
Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced the immediate availability of an update for Macromedia? Flash? MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 that offers improved stability and more comprehensive documentation. The update (version 7.2) is available to current Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 customers for no additional charge at http://www.macromedia.com/go/updates/.
This update to Flash MX 2004 increases developer productivity by reducing initial launch and compile times and making the application lighter and more efficient to use. Significant improvements to documentation consist of more than 400 additional code examples and new chapters on component creation and customization.
“The Flash community has been very engaged in helping us deliver this update,” Ng Yew Hwee, Director, Macromedia South Asia.
“The result is a significant collection of changes that substantially improve the designer and developer experience.”
The update, previously code-named Ellipsis, was planned based on extensive input from customer interviews, surveys, discussion boards, and community blogs. Beta customers using the updated version have been pleased with the results.
“I'm thrilled to see Macromedia's commitment to improving the Flash authoring experience,” said Colin Moock, co-creator of Unity and author of ActionScript 2.0 Essentials.
“This new updater's extensively updated documentation will really help the community create compelling content.”
In addition to performance improvements and enhanced documentation, this update brings more efficient use of system resources, improved international font support, and a reduction in disk storage requirements to run Flash, which is of particular interest for educational and volume customers with multi-user configurations.
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 customers in South Asia include Electrical Generating Authority of Thailand, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Bank Public Company, NEC, Citibank, Creative Technologies, Dentsu Young Rubicam, Ogilvy Mather Singapore, Sony Electronics, Hewlett-Packard, Informatics, Ministry of Education Singapore, National University of Singapore, Monetary Authority of Singapore, SingTel, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore Press Holdings, YMCA Singapore, Ministry of Education Malaysia, Bank Negara Malaysia, New Straits Times Sdn Bhd, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Universiti Teknology Mara.
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