Here's an interesting video of a discussion on RIA technologies including Silverlight, Flex and AIR. Sam Stokes, academic developer/evangelist at Microsoft Corporation and Kevin Hoyt, platform evangelist at Adobe represented the two sides.
You can watch the video here - but be warned, the viewing experience isn't great, especially if you are on a Mac.
You can watch the video here - but be warned, the viewing experience isn't great, especially if you are on a Mac.
The "low" res version didn't require a user/pass, but it's pretty bad.
I actually watched the majority of this video and it was painfully comical. Adobe guy starts up with the 3D cloth expample and moves through the other killer examples most of us have seen. Very impressive stuff.
MS guy spends 30 minutes trying to impress the audience with Deep Zoom, Sea Dragon, Photosynth, or whatever it's called. Granted zooming into super high res images is kinda neat, but didn't Zoomify do that in Flash six years ago?
I kinda felt bad for MS guy. sniff sniff.
Round One... Adobe
If ever there was an advert NOT to deploy M$ technologies then this is it