Macromedia drops FreeHand from bundle | CNET News.com: “Macromedia executives cited ‘extensive research with our customers’ as the reason behind the decision, and not its impending acquisition by Adobe Systems–which current sells a competing product called Illustrator. Adobe announced in April that it would buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion.
A Macromedia representative said FreeHand will be sold and supported as a standalone product for the time being.”
The other big news regarding Macromedia’s release of Studio 8 is that CSS/accessibility is improved in Dreamweaver, and Contribute and FlashPaper are bundled with DW, Fireworks and Flash Professional in this suite.