Expression 3 is the product of a company bought recently by Microsoft. The free vector-based illustration and graphics tool exports in Flash, Illustrator, PDF and EPS formats.
The program uses the patented docking menus that were in the middle of the Adobe vs. Macromedia trial in 2003. Probably Microsoft got a better price for the patent than negotiating directly with Adobe.
Though I’m not a DB-addicted, XML files replacing the INI files were repugnant to me, since I’ve first saw them. Even with my poor knowledge, I knew that XML is for inter-exchange of data, while a simple enumeration of attribute-value pairs may use whatever ASCII or Unicode form would fit the developer.
I knew that sorting data from inside an XML listing is a monstrosity and I saw this disease infecting mostly the apps developed in Java and .Net, when impotent devs are trying to use as much as they can from the libraries provided with the framework.
Chris J. Date is showing that only people with small brains are thinking about RDBMS as dead.
(This link is topping the first page on Microsoft’s MSXML page. Of course they care, they are selling RDBMS.)