Acrylic For Vista Launched
Acrylic, a new design tool deriving from Microsoft’s 2003 takeover of Hong Kong-based company, Creature House Ltd., is set to be released early. The product is aimed at designers in print and enters the arena long dominated by Adobe.
Forest Key, the Group Product Manager, said, “Acrylic relates to Windows Vista, and it is a technology for the creation of rich applications and user interfaces.”
The product is designed for the architecture of the Windows Presentation Foundation, formerly code-named Avalon, and “gives developers capabilities to build compelling applications. There is a need for tools to target XAML for presentation of compelling applications. Acrylic is a design tool to target XAML.” [Via eweek]
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Aug 23, 2005 at 3:58 pm
[…] Expression Studio will also ship with a design tool provisionally called Acrylic, which Microsoft said last week will support the Microsoft Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML). Other components of Expression Studio will be unrolled over time […]
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