Adobe is rather smart to use the traction behind Flash to take on Microsoft, but it's not that easy. I don't know if many of you have tried .NET, but it's quite

Adobe is rather smart to use the traction behind Flash to take on Microsoft, but it's not that easy. I don't know if many of you have tried .NET, but it's quite a powerful and well-designed platform (surprising for Microsoft). It also has the smartest languages of any mainstream development environment (F# and C# 3.0). Flex and Air cover maybe 1/10 of the features .NET has and it's going to be a few more years at the very least before it's a serious competition to Microsoft.