Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Expression Tools Delayed Until 2007/2008?
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> | It's always a bad sign when a speaker pretends the dates in his/her slide
> | deck aren't really there. It's almost as bad when Microsoft denies that
> | it ever stated a ship date for a product in the first place. But that's
> | exactly what's happening on the Expression Studio design-tool side of
> | the house.
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> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1990233,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
More MS news in a Linus advocacy newsgroup. You must be really afraid
of MS.
Have you *tried* the expression studio suite of tools? You do realize
that expression studio is really *3* separate products right? Think
Word, Excel and PowerPoint all being created and released for the
*first* time.
The products are *very* high quality and represent a new market for
Microsoft.
I have actually used Microsoft Interactive Expression Designer to
design for the next generation of Windows applications - Windows
Presentation Foundation. It is a great product and already works well
- MS is certainly listening to feedback and adding new features.
Also, this tool relies on WPF - which won't be shipped until Vista is
released - meaning that expressions doesn't need to be out until then.
Finally, you can download and use the tools *today* in their beta form
- for free.
Microsoft releases literally hundreds of new products and releases a
year - and when a few are late, the Linux advocates jump up and down.
When Vista is released - and if it is good as the betas suggest - then
I don't think you are going to have much to 'party' about.
After all - look at the situation now. People are satisfied with XP -
and they still won't use Linux even if you throw them a free copy!
Vista is going to blow away people's ideas about Windows XP - and they
are going to *want* it.
The Man with No Name
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