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Isn't it truly just re-inventing flash...
by Charles on Saturday 13/Jan/2007, @08:39

flash has been around for years - sadly everyone learnt to use it through an IDE, it really didn't take on the application style interaction untill more and more flash addicts started using it. -today you can build fully fledged applications (as long as the computer on the otherside can handle it) - so really, Microsoft is thinking about cornering and pushing adobe into doing different type of work, and to forget about it's Macromedia purchase, forget about PDF's and restricitng people from being able to work with them unless paying for thier products, I mean out of all the software vendors that make a profit according to volume of sales - adobe has to be up there in the 'rip off' category, eg. Corel Suite vs Adobe CS. -Adobe need to start thinking about merging thier software categories (I mean Ilustrator still can't do muti page layout - it's not like it's more than a couple of lines of code to give it the ability too)
-anyway I'm off topic
.net 3.0 is just a fancy Flash player, and Xaml is the new SWF (albeit an open version) and as the older browsers slowly become reduntant, the new era of networked interactivity will slowly warp the average joes abilty to understand -whether or not their modem is even connected to the net. - using your personal computer will seem more like a kiosk experience instead of the strict OS vendor -> connect to the net and view experience.
I really think it will be great... I just wonder where adobe and the linux community are going to go with it.
Hopefully PC's and other devices will consist of nothing more than framework, eg. Mono or .Net with xml files controlling whatever the framework has to offer (of course with permissions in mind) - I think it will be great - imagine building and stringing together whatever you want without having to compile or buy software, all you'll need is your text editor.

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