Topic: VCSY
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- By: wool_riddle
04 Dec 2006, 04:03 PM EST
Msg. 172243 of 172273
Expression is no Emily that's for sure. There's not enough THERE there in Microsoft's marketing material. If that's it Microsoft is content to start shewing up their rivals in web-design and not go afer any new ground.
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.mspx
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Expression Web (formerly Expression Web Designer)(Now Shipping)
New Era, New Tool
Reduce complexity and ease data integration by using powerful design tools and task panes to quickly incorporate XML data. Seamlessly integrate Web design and development teams with Expression Web and Visual Studio’s superior support for XML, ASP . NET and XHTML.
Beautiful Inside and Out
Unleash your creative ideas and bring your Web sites to life with sophisticated CSS design features. Visual designers, specialized task panes, and tool bars give you precise control of page layout and formatting.
Passionate about Standards
Build dynamic, interactive pages that harness the power of the Web to deliver superior quality. Built-in support for today’s modern Web standards makes it easy to optimize your sites for accessibility and cross-browser compatibility
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Expression Blend (formerly Expression Interactive Designer)(Coming Soon)
Your Sandbox Just Got Bigger
Get involved with the new wave of next-generation applications that blend the best of the Web and the desktop. Design cutting-edge user interfaces and collaborate with developers to bring these stunning new types of applications to life.
Art, Meet Science
Think of it as your virtual playground. Mix design elements such as video, vector art, high quality text, animation, pixel images, and 3D content with a full toolbox of advanced controls and containers to create engaging, cinematic user interfaces.
Go Beyond the Browser
Give your users something better-better performance, better usability, better experiences. Now your designs can break out of the browser to leverage the full power of the desktop.
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Expression Design (formerly Expression Graphic Designer)(Coming Soon)
Expand Your Portfolio
Expand your portfolio and collaborate with others who are defining the next generation of software applications. Expression Design is the perfect companion to Expression Blend, letting you quickly build sophisticated vector assets. Then seamlessly transfer-by way of XAML-your graphics to your Expression Blend projects.
Designed for Design
Unleash your creativity with innovative vector drawing tools and non-destructive effects that you can apply to either vector or imported bitmapped images. Apply both hard-edged and organic strokes while maintaining the flexibility of vector paths. Expression Design has been built from the ground up for designers by designers.
Your Vision, Uncompromised
Don't let your design degenerate when it's handed off to someone else. Now, you can be confident that the look-and-feel-such as a corporate identity or user interface elements-will be maintained all the way to the final product. Build your assets in Expression Design, export them as XAML, and give them life with Expression Blend's interactive features.
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Expression Media (Robert McLaws speculates this could be the acquired photo-management tool from iView) (Coming Soon)
Tame Your Media
Imagine how much more you’d get done if you could just find what you’re looking for. Expression Media makes digital asset management easy—just drag and drop to import more than 100 different media formats, including digital RAW files. Even when your originals are offline, Expression Media’s visual catalogs allow you to browse, search, and annotate your assets.
Your Workflow Enhanced
Handle lots of files, fast, with the professional’s choice. Rename, convert, or tag hundreds of files at a time with sophisticated batch processing; or use powerful search features to instantly find and retrieve your digital media assets. Edit images and keep track of your changes with version control, while folder watching keeps your catalogs up to date.
Presentation is Everything
Impress your audience with slide shows, videos, and Web galleries. When it’s time to deliver, Expression Media can export your assets in exactly the format and size your clients need, with dozens of professionally designed presentation templates. With Expression Media Encoder, you can convert and publish video to reach a broad, cross-platform audience.
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Expression Web is a web-page layout environment (ala "next generation" FrontPage). Expression Blend is an assembly manager for page functions.
Expression Design is a graphics Package. Expression Media is a presentation manager.
What am I looking at here? XAML is as far as I see them going. That's an animation language written in XML and it's designed to take things away from Adobe's proprietary coding: ( http :// www. mikeswanson. com/ swf2xaml/ ). Not applicable to application functionality - only UI information and interaction.
Emily can be used to build virtual computers. What is Microsoft doing challenging Emily with "FrontPage" when THIS is as far as they can go in intellectual property thrust? THIS is Microsoft's next generation application builder? No. This is Microsoft's effort to stay relevant in the internet war. They need to occupy at least some design areas and Dreamweaver is a tempting chunk. Gulp and yummy. But this is in no way a next generation web-application encoder. LOL
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[And it took Microsoft 20 years to be able to make things look as good as other software maker's UI and they have the nerve to call it a productivity improvement. When that's all you got you can get plenty nervy.]
http://www.microsoft.com/design/
(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)
