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== '''Market Insights''' ==
=== Desktop / Platform ===
==== Adobe ====
* Adobe launched [http://html.adobe.com/ http://html.adobe.com/], a single portal that aggregates all the company's efforts to support HTML5
* The Wall Street Journal [https://www.google.com/search?gl=ca&pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&tbm=nws&as_epq=Adobe%20Pivots%20to%20New%20Target&as_occt=any&as_drrb=b&as_mindate=4%2F23%2F12&as_maxdate=4%2F25%2F12&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A4%2F23%2F12%2Ccd_max%3A4%2F25%2F12&as_nsrc=Wall%20Street%20Journal&authuser=0 published] an interview with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen that talks about how the company is "pivoting" to a subscription business model that targets marketers
==== Apple ====
* Apple [http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/04/18/apple_seeds_safari_52_update_3_to_devs.html released] Safari 5.2 Update 3 to developers. This release features SVG filters, HTML Assets, CSS Filters, the Web Audio API and an improved Web Inspector.
==== Google ====
* Google finally released [http://drive.google.com/ Google Drive], a cloud file storage system. It now serves as the storage interface for the Google App Suite. A REST-based API now allows web application developers to integrate their products with it, and there is now a special section in the Chrome Web Store for it
* Chrome's "Cloud Print" functionality now allows you to [http://chrome.blogspot.ca/2012/04/delivering-cloud-printing-to-more.html print at any FedEx Office location in the U.S.], and also allows you to PDF "print" documents directly to a Chrome for Android browser.
* <datalist> support just [http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/04/datalist-landed-in-Chrome-Canary landed] on Chrome Canary
* Google also dramatically [http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.ca/2012/04/spurring-more-vulnerability-research.html raised the bounties] it pays for independent researchers for reporting security bugs, raising the maximum amount to $20,000 from $3,133.70
* The long-anticipated trial for [http://news.cnet.com/2702-1001_3-1507.html Oracle's lawsuit against Google] got underway in San Francisco. At the core of the dispute is the question as to whether APIs, apart from source code, are copyrightable.
* CSS Scoped Styles also [http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/04/html5-offers-scoped-css-for-precision-styling/ landed] in Chrome Canary
* Google's Ben Goodger [https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/msg/e74be92e0eb5627a?pli=1 posted] a clear description of the difference between Aura, a hardware-accelerated UI framework, and Ash, the new ChromeOS window manager. From the description it's clear that some elements of Aura are planned for deployment to other platforms.
==== Microsoft ====
* Microsoft [https://twitter.com/#!/BuildWindows8/status/194627936115101696 confirmed] that the Windows 8 Release Preview will be coming out in the first week of June
* Facebook signed an agreement with Microsoft to [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226471/Facebook_to_pay_Microsoft_550M_for_AOL_patents purchase and cross-license] 550 former AOL patents and patent applications. Analysts mused that Facebook purchased the assets in order to better justify moves into different markets after its upcoming initial public offering.
==== Opera ====
* Opera, on a quest to deploy the "first true hardware accelerated browser", [http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2012/04/20/update-on-hardware-acceleration-in-opera-12 described how] current Opera 12 snapshots are showing improved DirectX hardware acceleration, rather than OpenGL, and will be making it opt-in.
* Also in Opera 12, two Add-on platforms will be [http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2012/04/24/increased-focus-on-opera-extensions-and-ending-support-for-unite-widgets-voice removed]: Opera Unite and Opera Widgets, as well as support for speech recognition, text-to-speech and VoiceXML.
* Opera also [http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2012/04/18/opera-11-63-released-for-the-mac-app-store released a special version] of 11.63 for the Mac App store.
==== Other ====
* Majd Taby has posted a [http://jtaby.com/2012/04/23/modern-web-development-part-1.html detailed overview] of all the features in the WebKit Inspector and how they can be best used in mobile application development.
* Long Tail Video [http://www.longtailvideo.com/html5/ posted a summary] of HTML5 video support across all the major browsers. Support for key features like tag attributes is nearing ubiquity but support for fullscreen and adaptive streaming is lagging
== Marketing, Press & Public Reaction ==
