Macromedia announced Studio 8, and the product will be available in September this year. Macromedia Studio 8 includes Dreamweaver 8, Flash Professional 8, and Fireworks 8, Contribute 3 (a basic content manager), and FlashPaper 2. Macromedia Studio 8 is priced at US$999 for a full license and US$399 for the upgrade.
[sdt=9582]Flash Player 8 Beta[/sdt], a client runtime player is free of charge and is available now. Flash 8 will enable designers to layer video atop video or other interactive content.
> Macromedia Studio 8
It is interesting to note that they dropped the "MX" naming and moving back to numbers.
Macromedia's FAQ wrote:What is the significance of dropping MX in the name?
This is a major release for Studio and we wanted the naming to reflect the significance of the release. We also found that customers felt the historical number conventions were simpler and easier to understand.
System requirements:
- 600 MHz PowerPC G3
and later - Mac OS X 10.3
, 10.4 
- 256 MB RAM (1 GB recommended to run more than one Studio 8 product simultaneously)
- 1024 x 768, thousands of colors display (millions of colors recommended)
- 1.2 GB available disk space
Or if you are in the other world,
- 800 MHz Intel Pentium III processor (or equivalent) and later
- Windows 2000, Windows XP
- 256 MB RAM (1 GB recommended to run more than one Studio 8 product simultaneously)
- 1024 x 768, 16-bit display (32-bit recommended)
- 1.8 GB available disk space
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