Microsoft developing Flash competition?

Let the games begin! Back in June our sister Design Blog posted about Microsoft's Acrylic going after Adobe, and now our other sister FlashInsider blog posted about Microsoft going after Macromedia with Expression Studio, a "very cool tool that combines the best of vector, [and] some very cool tools for animation." (hah!) Looks like this is the product of yet another buyout however, as I found through some digging that Microsoft simply bought out Creature House, makers of what used to be Expression 3.

Either way, I'm with FlashInsider: this is a little sad. Microsoft is a very, very late player to a game already dominated by Adobe and Macromedia - two media app giants about to merge. Maybe their IE7 RSS feeds really are still in beta.

 

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