..if you could call it that. They gave up their Office 2008 pricing and Jan 15 (Macworld) release date. The MS reps there couldn't have been less interested in actually showing the application though. They were all playing Halo on iMacs which admittedly did look pretty fun and made me want to give MS some of our Euros. The one person we did manage to talk to only wanted to talk about SharePoint Expression...which made us a bit sick.
Microsoft wasn't the only Windows show in the expo. Parallels and VMware were there...
The organizers thoughtfully put them on opposite sides of the floor to avoid the inevitable duel.
Frankly VMware dropped a bit more on their space. But surprisingly(?!) no retrospect in the EMC area...Parallels had a booth the size of a phone.
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What is "SharePoint
What is "SharePoint Expression"? Are you sure you have that correct?
There is Expression Studio which contains Web, Blend, Design, and Media products. Design and Media are targeted at design professionals (e.g. Design is analogous to Illustrator) so this should be of some interest.
Expression is supposed to be
Expression is supposed to be the , probably in the same way the Zune was the "iPod Killer"
As a user of Flash, I assure one and all, that nothing from Redmond is earning more than a half-interested glance from me right now. But I never say never, I'll look again in a year or two.
Oops, my post got
Oops, my post got scwewy
Expression is supposed to be the FLASH KILLER, probably in the same way the Zune was the "iPod Killer"
As a user of Flash, I assure one and all, that nothing from Redmond is earning more than a half-interested glance from me right now. But I never say never, I'll look again in a year or two.
FLASH KILLER ref http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2067332,00.asp
Microsoft Silverlight is
Microsoft Silverlight is their Flash competitor. Expression Design is a vector graphics app similar to Illustrator. Expression Blend is a GUI design tool used with Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation applications.
Version 1.0 of Silverlight has already shipped. I don't find the 1.0 release very interesting because all the code behind must be done in Javascript.
The Silverlight 1.1 release that is coming next year will be quite a big advance. It will let you write the code behind in C#, VB.NET, javascript, etc. It will also ship with a large chunk of the .NET libraries to support things like threading, web services, isolated storage, etc.
Disclaimer: I don't work for Microsoft, but make money from using their stuff, so I'm biased.
microsoft
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i prefere Googledocs :)
i prefere Googledocs :)
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