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
