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"After announcing the end of the Creative Suite and a new family of Creative Cloud-only apps and services, Adobe has shared that its Web-focused design and prototyping tool Fireworks has been canned.\r\n\r\nThere had been whisper that Fireworks would soon cease development, and now, after being ignored during the company's Max conference today, Adobe says it has &amp;quot;decided not to update Fireworks to CC and instead will focus on developing new tools to meet our customers needs.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe core reasoning behind this change, according to Adobe, is the overlap in functionality between\u00A0Fireworks,\u00A0Photoshop, Illustrator, and Edge Reflow. This decision is hard to vet without seeing Adobe's sales and usage numbers, but there is clearly a strong, niche market for Fireworks \u2014 perhaps too niche for Adobe's own\u00A0aspirations.\r\n\r\nFireworks CS6 will continue to be available, as will the entire CS 6 suite of apps, but Adobe is only planning to offer &amp;quot;security updates as necessary and may provide bug fixes.&amp;quot;\r\nSo, have you heard the one about Fireworks being killed? Nope not a joke. Missing @alanmusselman\r\n\r\n\u2014 Dee Sadler (@DeeSadler) May 6, 2013\r\n&amp;amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe small, yet sincerely dedicated group of die-hard Fireworks fans will surely be disappointed \u2014 we wouldn't be surprised to see a petition surface demanding Adobe open source the product for future development.\r\n\r\nThis announcement follows massive news for Adobe: After nearly 10 years, the company is abandoning its Creative Suite to focus solely on a new suite of Creative Cloud-only apps and services.\u00A0For details on why Adobe has made this decision,\u00A0head here."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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