Make sense of Microsoft's and Adobe's new technologies: /by @baekdal .

Microsoft and Adobe has both been putting out a tremendous amount of new technologies, development tools and varies types of applications. But many people seem to be confused of how they compare to each other - not to mention what function each of them holds. Thankfully Ryan Steward has written an article that makes it much clearer.

In short:

• Apollo and .NET/WPF is what you use to make desktop applications
• Flash player and Silverlight is for creating browser-based applications
• Flash CS3 and Silverlight can help you create make your web applications more interactive
• Flash Media Server (with On2 Flix) and Expression Video Encoder (with VC-1) is what you use to publish video
• Adobe CS3 and Expression Suite is what you use to create rich experiences.

I would like to add that I think that Adobe seems to be targeted more towards Rich Experiences (exciting content), whereas Microsoft leans more towards Rich Interactions (exciting interfaces). But, that may just be me.

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