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A mere week after Adobe Systems reported that it would be shedding nearly 700 employees or 9% of its total worldwide workforce, the company is releasing two highly anticipated new products that have been in the works for a while: Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0.

Both of the products are being released with a ‘beta’ label at the same time for all 3 major operating systems (Windows, Mac and Linux) and x86-based netbooks, and are available now via Adobe Labs.

According to Adobe some of the AIR 2 improvements are follows:

  • Support for the detection of mass storage devices
  • Advanced networking capabilities like secure sockets, UDP support, and the ability to listen on sockets
  • Support for native code integration
  • The ability to open a file with its default application
  • Multi-touch and gesture support
  • New APIs for access to raw microphone data
  • Webkit update with HTML5/CSS3 support
  • Global error handling
  • Improved cross-platform printing
  • Improved security and support for enterprise and government standards

You may read the full change log of Adobe Air2 Beta here. Adobe Air2 Beta works for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.

Download Adobe Air2 Beta

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