Microsoft. Tries.

At Microsoft, plans are in to try and dominate two Big Hit Technology Products, one hardware and one software.

Apple's iPod - still in the pipeline
Macromedia's (Damn Formerly, now Adobe) Flash is coming soon as Sparkle.

We all know about the domination history, but I think Microsoft have made better products in terms of usability. I am a web design buff and every time I tried to do Flash, ain't happening because of the complexities of using the program. Swish quickly became popular for the same reason, but the "bundled ready to gift-wrap" approached crippled creativity. So I'd like to see what the Sparkle UI looks like. Seemingly, from MS site, Sparkle is part of the Expression Suite.