encyclo - 2:23 am on Feb 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

A semi-related recent article about Microsoft Expression:

[crn.com...]

The tools, formally named this week, are aimed at interactive Web site designers and graphics designers developing WinFX-based applications on Windows XP and Windows Vista, Microsoft said. (...) The third member of the Expression family, Expression Web Designer, is aimed at Web designers and is still in beta testing.

This product is potentially huge - the Expression programs are Microsoft's attempt to bring in the designer crowd (publishing as well as web) off the Mac platform. The Web Designer component is in beta and is supposed to produce standards-based XHTML by default, but the move to open standards on the client side is not followed for the backend, where Microsoft's XAML, which is a proprietary XML-based format for use in the upcoming Windows Vista OS.