Welcome to Macromedia® Flash®, the industry’s choice for authoring rich interactive content. Flash Professional 8 and Flash Basic 8 offer web designers and developers a range of tools including graphic effects, animation, text, video and audio to create engaging users experiences delivered from desktops to mobile phones.  Use Flash to create great interactive marketing, presentations, rich media advertising, e-learning, entertainment, business applications, interactive video experiences, and more.   

        Used by over 2 million creative professionals worldwide and with an audience of over 560 million users across the web, Flash is the world’s most pervasive software platform.  Macromedia Flash Player 8 is the highly expressive, ubiquitous runtime environment for interactive content and applications that look and run identically on all major platforms and web browsers. Flash Player 8 offers unprecedented performance in a light-weight, secure runtime, featuring a spotless security track record over 9 years and 8 major versions. Flash Player continues to be distributed with major partners including Microsoft®, Apple®, Netscape®, and AOL® to bring rich content and applications immediately to 98% of Internet-enabled desktops worldwide.

        We have some great resources to help you discover more about Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8, get support, and send feedback to the team. Please note that while this Readme file has information pertaining to both products, you will only receive the product for which you have purchased a license.

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