I didn’t want to make my post even longer so I stayed away from discussing such things as Microsoft Expressions product line and how successful they will be able in gettng Graphic Designers to adapt it. I understand the proposed benefits of seamless transition of designs created in Expressions to Visual Studio but I am somewhat cautious about the uptake.

My other concern is adaption of Silverlight ActiveX control. Corporations and a lot of consumers are very security-oriented. I think consumers were trained not to click on any “would you like to install” popups.

I also see value in Air — building the same code that runs in the browser and on cross-platform desktop.

With that said, i think resolving above issues is just a matter of time — and Microsoft is certainly known for significantly improving their products with each version.

Mike

P.S. It looks like you combine graphic design skills with coding abilities — that is a rather uncommon and I think it plays a role in your understanding of Silverlight benefits

From experience, the types of RIA’s i build i would recommend SilverLight over FLEX. And i work on alot of sizable RIA projects (3mth-6mth engagements with budgets in the 6 figures sometimes 7 figures)