Take anything successful for long enough and Microsoft will want to do it eventually. Up till now the Adobe suite was untouchable (by anyone who wasn’t willing to sell out). But now Microsoft is taking a stab at the Adobe giant. Introducing apps to compete with Photoshop (they already had on that didn’t compete), Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and yes, even Flash and Flash player!! This is an interesting move since one of the nice things about Adobe, was that 99% of developers used it. Therefore standards in code and code alternates were widely available. If the new contender catches on, we might have to start asking, is that flash or silverlight? But hopefully, the better result will be a price tag drop, since the new CS3 is weighing in at $1,799!
What do you think, would you try out Microsoft to save some money? Think they will actually be able to compete?