I've been too busy (is there a Flash developer in the world who isn't busy these days?) to post much on my blog and so didn't post about the news surrounding Apollo, Flex, or Silverlight. Those are all important things, but don't impact my daily work (yet..).

But yesterday afternoon some news popped up on my radar that will impact my work in a very good way, and I think will impact the Flash world as well. I don't have any details other than what I've read here and little tidbits I've picked up from sources inside Adobe.. but..

The next major release of the Flash Player (Flash Player 10?) will support bi-directional text.
This is huge people.. huge.

Michael Labriola sums up why this is important to Flash as a whole for acceptance as a "platform". Personally it gives me hope that localizing Arabic content won't be such a chore.
(edited to add...) Emmy Huang has posted some additional info and a request on her blog.