PC World Picks Microsoft’s Expression Web over Adobe’s Dreamweaver CS3
Published April 29th, 2007 on Digital Backcountry - Ryan Stewart's Flash Platform Blog
PC Magazine did a review of Dreamweaver CS3 and while praising the product left the editor’s choice pick in the hands of Expression Web “by a nose”.
How worthwhile is the award? PC World acknowledges that Dreamweaver CS3 is a pretty awesome product and describes it as an essential upgrade for current Dreamweaver users. I’ve played with Expression Web and I was impressed, but the problem Microsoft has is that there are a TON of Dreamweaver users. Even if they have what some consider to be a better product, making any headway in the market is going to be VERY tough.
They’re going to have the same issue with Expression Design, people are simply too entrenched in Illustrator. But Blend is another story, because right now I really don’t think Adobe has a competitive tool to Blend, which is an “Interaction Designer”. Now obviously if you aren’t building WPF or Silverlight applications, Blend is useless to you, but it will be interesting to see if Blend can help the market share for Web and Designer. I’ve also seen some spiffy stuff with Expression Media.
[via ScaryNoises]
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