Seems like most designers dismiss Fireworks before even giving it a chance. Once you get over the initial bump it actually feels much nicer to work with than Photoshop.

The only thing really listed in this article that Fireworks hasn't done for years is the retina capabilities.

Fireworks blows sketch out of the water performance wise and also opens layered PSDs/copy and paste support for vectors from Illustrator.

Adobe killing off Fireworks just proves how little they understand the needs of their customers.