I was on MSDN this morning and found out that Microsoft has official released their Flash clone and called it Silverlight. It looks like Microsoft are trying to directly compete with Flash with this release. Formally known as Sparkle and Codename WPF/E this release is Beta and looks a little more polished. I don't expect it to gain much traction initially with the loyalty of the community to Flash, remember SVG... which Adobe has just abandoned.
There are plug-ins for Mac and PC, and they've released an Alpha version of some development software on the Microsoft website. This will be an interesting space to watch. With the growth of the .NET community and Microsofts push in this space with significant investment in Visual Studio and Expression software which now integrate directly with Silverlight it definately looks like we are headed for a showdown between Adobe and Microsoft.
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