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Hello FY07, Farewell FY06

  • Artigo

July 1 marks the start of the new financial year. It's like the start of a
new season in footy. We have plans, commitments, targets, strategies and
tactics.

What happened during the past 12 months. Let's reflect

What's ahead for this year? Let's take a quick look

and that's just the next 6 months.

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  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2006
    "What can I do this year that I've never done before?" asks the restless digital craftsman. "Create stylish, eye-catching designs" seems to be this year's answer with Vista's new graphics and Expression's new tools. And Style is how you attract a new audience. The current programmers will love the many new product upgrades in the next twelve months, but this could be the year the Creative Community has to sit up and take notice that Microsoft, for the first time, is seriously coming to their turf.

  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2006
    Programmers are rarely designers, so why should we expect designers to become programmers. But every team I've headed or known for web design has people with different skills, including a code monkey who can bring the design to life and tie it to a database. That team is the target audience for Expressions.

    Think Adobe isn't vulnerable? They "got" the desktop publishing wave and established themselves, but Macromedia "got" the Internet wave that Adobe missed (hence they bought them). But Adobe won't come out with a version of their products optimised for Mac Intel chips until this time next year. And they're pinning their Interactive Website hopes on a PC-only application released a few days ago, Flex 2, that requires an experienced Java programmer comfortable with Eclipse.

    Perhaps you haven't sensed the disarray in the Adobe camp? They saw how easy it was a few years ago to steal the market from a competitor who had a huge mindshare, Quark XPress. They know the wheel can turn.

    Microsoft's potential audience is Interactive Designers who want connecting to data sources to be easy and secure. They als want to leverage what they already know from Dreamweaver and Photoshop and have it all integrate tightly. They don't want one person to play Superman and do it all; they want the skills spread over the team in a way where the job can flow from one member to the next.

    And if they discover that Microsoft lets their team work together better than Adobe does they'll listen.

    Then when they discover they can integrate Macs and PCs in the same network, tied to the same server, in the same security context, using Adobe and Expression products together in the same workflow, I think they'll do more than listen. I'm doing that now, its working brilliantly, and a number of people are watching over my shoulder with interest.

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  • Anonymous
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  • Anonymous
    July 02, 2006
    Well, I couldn't read this post without adding my own comments.  

    Anybody who thinks 'workflow' can only work on a Mac and that only Adobe has done it needs some lessons...  Workflow is workflow, it can be done on any platform in any language and was not invented in the computer age.

    The reason MS have not created Mac versions... they don't sell.  With such a small market share, why would any company make a business decision to support it.

    The only reason the print industry does not move off the Mac platform is because they are gullable enough to think it is better.  Get out of the 1996's. Apples move to Intel chips... now MacOS is 'just another alternative OS'.  If you want smooth integration with 'real' database products, Windows is the answer.

    All the Adobe products work on Windows and with the unbeatable tools and flexablility in Windows, who wouldn't pick it as the premier OS.  The Expression tools take it to the next level, have you ever tired to program In-Design???  I have and the things I can do in 2 seconds in .NET take months and are terribly slow with Adobe products.

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  • Anonymous
    July 03, 2006
    the job is still open. i am still looking for the right person

    "My 2 Cents" - drop me a note if you are interested

  • Anonymous
    July 03, 2006
    mmm... then I'd have to reveal my alter-ego...  :-)

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  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2006
    Hi 'Rather Not',

    Colours are personal choice, bagging an entire OS because you don't like the colour... now I've heard it all.  BTW, you have been able to change the colours since Windows 3.1.  Isn't the 'silver' colour scheme a neutral gray...

    I have worked on $2.5 million dollar (US) projects that were websites created by 3 people... so what's your point?  Over charging is over charging.  Getting away with it is just good business, just ask Caltex (and the rest)...

    If there were more people interested in Macs, MS would do a release... wouldn't they?

    Expression is not just about graphics.  It is an environment for creating XML.  This XML uses a schema called Xaml.  WPF can use it but... the power lies in the fact that it can be created from anywhere by anything and used anywhere on anything...

    The same can be said of PDF (you can get the PDF spec for free and use it to create your own PDF's, something I have done in the past...)  But PDF is 'locked' into Adobe (copyright etc... like it or not).  Xaml is NOT and is FAR easier to work with because it is just XML.  Do a search for 'Xaml' in Google, I got almost 3 million hits... looks like it is here to stay!!

    Interactive Designer is a tool for making Xaml programable.  No reason someone could't write a port for Unix, Linux, Symbian (dare I say OSX) or any other OS.  That's what the Mono project did for .NET and Linux.

    I had a look at the Semi-Permanent web site... what was the overall demographic?  I am ultra-critical of large events like this (including the IBM and MS ones so I am not picking on Semi-Permanent) often it is just a way to make money or get investors.

    And lastly... Expression is a beta... so some things won't work.  Looks like youv'e found a bug, please report it!

    No bribes here... and I thought Apple killed off the Fish PC :-)  http://www.theapplecollection.com/iMac/iStore/FishPC.html

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