Microsoft's Sparkle a Flash Killer?

Charmless1 writes to tell us eWeek is reporting that Microsoft has release new previews of their upcoming developer tools. Some have even dubbed these new tools as "Flash killers". From the article: "Microsoft's Expression Suite consists of the Expression Graphic Designer, Expression Interactive Designer and the Expression Web Designer. Microsoft has yet to release a CTP for the Web Designer, also known by its codename Quartz." Slashdot also covered some of the pre-release sentiments back in September.

Comments

Re:SVG?

[smittyoneeach]

Abdicate your sovereignty to Redmond.

Re:How much is it going to cost?

[smart.id]

Look, son, I told you, I don't want you posting on Slashdot. People can tell that you're mentally retarded when you try to come up with such silly ideas!

Re:SVG?

[Weedlekin]

Yet another inappropriate car analogy applied to software. To add spice, I will add another
set of inappropriate car analogies:

Ocelots are like cars that hunt small animals, clim trees, shit all over the place, and fuck other cars of the opposite sex.

Stomachs are like cars. You put fuel in them, and fart fumes.

Radio waves are like cars with no doors. They're there, but you can't use them to drive your kids to McDonalds.

Oceans are like cars. You can get in them, and use them to move around.

I think we need a new variant on Godwin's law which says that anyone who is guilty of car analogies in a discussion about software has their backside whacked with a large stick until they promise not to do it again.