After existing only as a Mac beta for the past several months, Adobe has released Lightroom in a Windows Beta. Lightroom is a photo management workflow manager primarily for RAW images that pro-level or high end consumer photographers would use. It seems to exist in much the same world as Apple's Aperture. It seems that Adobe is really putting a lot of effort around color management as well as photo printing. More info on this release here from Photoshop News.
I think it's interesting to see Adobe's new "openness" in terms of sharing betas in the way that Macromedia did before the acquisition. Most of this is a result of Labs that Adobe inherited. They could have just as easily closed the door on Labs and turned off the lights, but I'm glad they didn't. It's exciting to watch products make their way through development (Flex, Flash 9, AS3, etc) as well as the promise of Adobe encouraging early adopters to download these betas, play with them and then provide feedback. It's a very touchy-feely approach from the Macromedia days that seems to have survived into the Adobe world.
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