erm, i dont think so. what about visual interdev? you say it got reborn. no
its not frontpage. its a completely new and different program. unless you
can run your frontpage files in it Expression Web != frontpage.

you wrote,
I'll also talk more about how Adobe CS3 products can work with Expression
tools etc bottom line, there is no winner, just mashups of cool RIA
technologies.

no. thats not true. when i say, i want to choose a technology to use whoever
i choose to use is the winner of my decision. so if silverlight doesn't
support the features i need and the platforms i need then it will never
"win" my bid. if it doesn't support *me* and my project then its not even in
the running.

ps it could mash together with other apps if i choose multiple technologies
but i want one tool to develop in. i hate the mashup mash up development the
web has created. html talking to css talks to javascript talks to ajax talks
to java talks to database. were sending messages all over the place.
although flex helps this you still have 1 dummy html wrapper + 1 swf + 1
server side technology + 1 optional db. i had to give a swf to another
developer at work. it was loading in all the images and css. we had run into
path issues so i asked if he wanted everything embedded. i gave him one file
from then on. from 30 files to 1 swf.

On 5/2/07, Scott Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



On 5/3/07, sher_ali2004 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>   Never trust Microsoft products and projects. They bring products and
> destroy those products themselves because of their marketing strategy.
> They never succeeded to run a product more than few years except
> Window OS and MS Office.
>
> If you put some efforts in learning a technology than you would never
> want to loss.
>
> What happend to FrontPage? What happened to ASP ?
>

Frontpage is now - Expression Web (re-modeled and re-done to make it
smarter etc).
ASP Classic got moved to ASP.NET, ASP.NET 2.0 is extremely popular for the
RAD approach it provides. Now we have ASP Futures release which combined
with Silverlight is pushing this evolution forward.

Microsoft are extremely committed to the Apple platform, if we weren't you
would would not of seen Silverlights launchpad event to be demo'd on a Mac.
It's about a series of channelled offerings and Apple users aren't being
left out on the Mac.

Again there are three tiers of offerings here, Ultimate Experience (WPF),
Great Experience (Silverlight) and Good Experience (AJAX/HTML). Our value
proposition to developers in the current .NET space that they have the
ability to move between these three tiers using their C#/VB.NET passports
mixed with XAML. Now if folks want to jump on board from the Flex world,
that's fine but I doubt Flex will "die" simply because Microsoft is in the
room, as Scott.G said this isn't a zero sum game,no two brands will "own"
the market.Silverlight and Live.com are a solution service that we think
is quite exciting and I think there is room for combination of both brands.

In the interest of killing such debates, I'm keen to spinup some
combination applications of FLEX + Silverlight working together. I'll also
talk more about how Adobe CS3 products can work with Expression tools etc
bottom line, there is no winner, just mashups of cool RIA technologies.

Scott Barnes
Developer Evangelist
Microsoft

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