Actually you do, they are still taking the product out for a few more test spins before it goes fully mainstream (which i will watch with a keen eye aswell hehe).
In all honesty, its a hard one to forcast. Microsoft have a lot of devoted developers to the point where it may be a registered religion in a few countries. If they go the approach of giving the IDE away for free and let the minions develop until they have taken over the world, it could be a force to rekon with. I still think FLEX has a much more positive approach, mainly again as the people who wrote FLASH player have the right to tweak/poke/pull/molest flash player to suite any wild ideas they conjure with FLEX. That being said, Flex has this nice attack power, whereby it can run an application on any platform/device that can't be said for the future of avalon *yet*. I'm pro FLEX, but at the very least i think it will heat things up some more ( i honestly did not expect Vista/Longhorn O/S to kick in until at min next year..so it cought me by suprise). It may put some pressure on FLEX price model, as its been said over and over, Flash UI concept in general isn't as widely accepted and requires initial prooving ground - Microsoft, kind of has a pretty damn powerful brand. Hard to say, earlier this question / concept was asked of the list and my overall summary was "pft, longhorn..when they catchup it will be long-in-the-tooth-horn"... now.. seeing how much traction they are getting in PR alone... could be i was wrong (as if i am ever wrong hehe). I do like the look of vista..its damn purty and they have some nice FREAKING UI concepts..did you all see that breadcrubs-pulldown approach, been staring us in the face all this time. Oh and i get the whole transparent chrome aswell, ie takes the focus off medoke visuals and more on actionable *did i make that word up?* controls. On 8/1/05, Sjors Pals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't have to wait: http://www.xamlon.com/ > > Greets, > > Sjors > > > Tolulope Olonade wrote: > > > There have been clamours from the .Net developer fold for Macromedia > > to make flex as native to .NET platform as well as it is with the java > > platform. > > > > What do you think will happen when MS releases a platform that allow > > .NET developers use the same Visual Studio.NET(2005 Maybe) + zero > > licensing fees (it runs on Server 2003), to create applications that's > > puts the kind of rich programming components jus like flex/flash ? > > > > Take a look here: > > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/hgtomayavalonctp.asp > > > > What do you think will happen? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > -- > > Flexcoders Mailing List > > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > > * Visit your group "flexcoders > > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders>" on the web. > > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > > Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > -- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.mossyblog.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hveoba2/M=362335.6886445.7839731.1510227/D=groups/S=1705007207:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122903930/A=2894361/R=0/SIG=13jmebhbo/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/education/digitaldivide/?source=YAHOO&cmpgn=GRP&RTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/";>In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
