Let’s imagine a world where visual designers used Windows PCs instead of Macs.
Presumably they would do this because there would be a set of high-quality, powerful web design tools that ran better on Windows than on the Mac. If this were the case, it would make the most sense for these hypothetical design tools, regardless of who makes them, to work closely with Microsoft technologies like Silverlight when it comes to RIA development. No other company would be able to develop an RIA framework that beat out Silverlight because Microsoft would have the home field advantage of building their framework on top of their own operating system.
This is a thought experiment, and not reality, only because there is no set of good design tools that run on a Windows PC. Enter Photoshop Express, Splashup, and Picnik. They run in a browser, so by definition they run the same on both a Windows PC and a Mac.
Interesting.
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But if the tools run everywhere, my choice of O/S is no longer decided by the tools.
So why wouldn’t I choose free/open Linux or funky looking MacOS for my ’sanctuary’ (http://www.insideria.com/2008/03/the-abstract-sanctuary.html) ?
I am not sure what you mean claiming there is no good set of design tools running on Windows. Photoshop runs on W. Illustrator etc. run on Windows. Open source projects like Xara and InkScape do. Flash designer does. Microsoft upcoming Expression is quite ok.
Please clarify?
I thought Flash is most prized Adobe posession, because it opens a new market to the old tool set. It is to Internet what PDF is to print. Or so I thought.