Where are the market opportunities for web designers/developers?
I don’t think Microsoft outlined a path for non-Microsoft developers/users to successfully use these tools to augment their existing tool sets. While Expression Interactive Designer has been dubbed a “Flash killer”, I don’t see the reality of any WinFX-based tool squashing the majority of Flash production work done today or within the next three years. I think it was a bad assumption that most Flash people in the audience build RIAs (or Rich Internet Applications) with Flash. I’d estimate that about half of the Flash designers/developers in the audience build hard-core RIAs with Flash, so the other half probably weren’t terribly impressed with building desktop applications. And let’s just be clear about that — Expression Interactive Designer, once released, will only be good for building next generation desktop applications for Windows Vista users. That’s it. As such, I’m surprised I didn’t see more of an effort from Windows developers at the conference to reach out to designers. If Wi
