Being a Web Developer I use a fair few Macromedia programmes. Most of the work I do in Dreamweaver. I could actually work on an old 386 running Dos, Edit and a FTP program since most of what I do is pure coding. The reason I use Dreamweaver is because it makes things a lot easier for me. The FTP side is integrated, as is a file browser and then the colour coding is simply a life saver when your reading through a couple of hundred lines of code…
I can even live with the fact that Dreamweaver very rarely displays any of my pages correctly since it´s a bit unreasonable for it to interperate the heavy levels of database driven coding in them. In short, I love this program. I also do a bit of Flash development every now and again, and when I need to do any image manipulation I tend to use Fireworks. Quite a happy Macromedia customer.
And then there´s Adobe… With them traditionally having a print based product line I don´t really use many of their programmes and the ones I do seem to be a bit buggy and bloated. With Adobe now holding the reigns of Macromedia´s development, I hope they don´t have this effect on the current Macromedia product line. I could switch to Illustrator without complaining too much. And I can´t see them discontinuing Flash. But if they screw up Dreamweaver, I am going to be pissed….