Worrying times aheed Adobe vs Microsoft

Microsoft is attempting to break into the interactive design world with their expression packages id like to say on face value they would fail.

Looks like they could win on one front at least looking into the expression packages even though most designers use macs. Microsoft have one package called sparkle which will be capable of creating web applications similar to shockwave though using their direct x libary sparkle will be capable of creating realtime 3d objects within a web application.

As a trainee in interactive media i find the possibility of microsoft gaining a foothold quite frightning in some instance and quite intriguing in others. It would be niave to dismiss microsofts work. Guess this explains the rise of asp.net servers .

Only current problems i can see with these packages are they are made by microsoft who have a poor reputation for the frontpage product and the fact that sparkle will only work with a windows vista machine. Looks like theirs more to learn, though theirs at most another 2 years before every home user has definatly switched to vista.

Hope adobe has a rival other than lingo to XAML otherwise they might just loose the battle before its started.

Links

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193500186&pgno=5&queryText=

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/08/microsoft-entering-adobe-territory.html