New Microsoft event to be held in March for designers and developers. Mix is described as ‘A 72-hour conversation between developers, designers and business professionals to explore high-fidelity commerce, content, media, services and security’.
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Microsoft’s new graphic applications have just been made public in a series of community technology previews (CTPs).
The new Expression line is comprised of Expression Interactive Designer (formerly Sparkle) aimed at the GUI/User Interface crowd while Expression Graphic Designer (formerly Acrylic) is hoping for a share of the Illustration and Graphic Design market.
With the recent Macromedia and Adobe merger now well in place it looks like Microsofts latest entry into the graphics market is going to signal the mother of all marketing showdowns.
As someone who
- has so many passwords for so many sites, forums, control panels etc etc
- is primarily visual and retains information more effectively in scribbles/arrows and illustrations
- has resorted to jotting all these passwords down in a simple address book
I was delighted to see a recent article by Roland Piquepaille entitled Graphical passwords for better security which details some interesting alternatives to text-based password control.
