Graphic software vendor Xara is under pressure from Microsoft.

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According to a foreign report, Xara, a British small vector graphics software company, recently said that the company had made a decision to break down the Internet in the face of Microsoft's aggressive situation in the vector graphics software market. The software becomes open-source for free use by Linux users. Xara hopes to survive in the red hat mode.

The variables of Global Graphics software in September are "joys and sorrows" for Xara ". Adobe announced its acquisition of Macromedia, which "wiped out" one of Xara's main rivals and made the company a third in the UK's vector graphics software market. However, Microsoft later released a series of graphic software such as Expression Studio, making Xara feel overwhelmed.

Charles Moir, the company's founder, entered the market in 1981. He said that with the expansion of the display screen and the increase in user demand, vector graphics software is winning a very good development opportunity. Almost all operating systems are focusing on vector graphics. However, Microsoft's actions have threatened the survival of Xara. Moir said they are good at technology, but not marketing like Microsoft. It is reported that Xara recently reduced the Xtreme Software to $79, while Adobe's Illustrator needed $900.

Recently, the company has decided to move Xtreme to open-source, in the hope that a large number of users can be obtained through the Linux platform and will be charged from the subsequent technical services. Moir said that the Linux version will be released in December. But this is almost a "desperate" decision. Moir said: "We don't know if this works. we have better products, but how can you compete with companies like Microsoft ?"