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The Ny Times is reporting the CEOs of Microsoft and Adobe recently met. Supposedly on their agenda: Apple.I get that. That two with the vendors who;ve had difficulties getting their interactive media technologies accepted for use on the iPad and also the iPhone are chatting seems possible, if not probable. A Flash-on-Windows Phone 7 discussion? I could see it. Feasible complaints to legal authorities launched in tandem? Sure,Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, a different plausible coffee-klatch topic….But now I;m seeing folks leap to the conclusion that Microsoft;s CEO Steve Ballmer met with Adobe;s CEO Shantanu Narayen to talk about Microsoft buying Adobe (based on a passing mention that such an idea was about the Ballmer-Narayen “let;s team to beat Apple” agenda. There;s this paragraph in the New york Occasions; report:“One more person with knowledge of past talks between the two companies explained that Microsoft has courted Adobe several years in the past with possible acquisition discussions. But the deal never moved past informal talks as Microsoft feared that United States Department of Justice would likely block the deal on antitrust grounds.”Call me highly skeptical. Microsoft has been downright conservative about the acquisition front,Microsoft Office 2007, as of late. The few acquisitions the company has made in the past year — only a single of which Microsoft acknowledged publicly (AviCode) this week — are small companies. Microsoft officials have said repeatedly the company is not looking to buy bigger companies; any new acquisitions are likely to be small and supplemental to the company;s existing businesses.I guess you could argue that Microsoft might want to buy Adobe to either kill or own Flash. But can anyone explain why Microsoft might want to buy Adobe otherwise? Adobe shares are surging,Microsoft Office Professional 2007, based about the possibility, right now. But I just don;t see it happening — especially at a time when Microsoft is trying to figure out Silverlight;s positioning in an increasingly HTML-based world.Update: UBS analyst Brent Thilll said UBS thinks a Microsoft-Adobe deal “would make strategic sense,Office 2007 Download, but is also unlikely.” He noted the CEOs of the two companies talk regularly, as Adobe is a single of Microsoft;s largest ISVs. But potential antitrust hurdles, a potentially high price,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, and Microsoft;s “spotty” track record in digesting large acquisitions are all factors working against such a deal happening.