Microsoft Illustrator Clone : Acrylic

[gxsaurav]

As it is known by all that Windows Longhorn will have a vector based UI, & MS wants the normal user to be able to design & customize the UI in their own way, & MS Paint is quite old now, Microsoft has released beta version of it's software code named Acrylic which is basically a CorelDRAW close, as it combines basic vector based creation & editing along with basic image editing, althugh photoshop is still better, feature wise it like CoreclDRAW 10, still a good thing if it is going to be bundled with Longhorn or will cost about $50 or so,

*www.microsoft.com/products/expression/

The interface is lot like illustrator CS

*www.neowin.net/staff/magoo/acrylic/window.jpg

Even the pallate are like that

*www.neowin.net/staff/magoo/acrylic/open.jpg

It's nothing close to CoreclDRAW or Illustrator in working, but consdiring that it might come free with Longhorn this is a really good bargain

 

[Charley]

Sounds intrstng

 

[sms_solver]

ms is very bad at making graphics application. It can not come close to Adobe Illustrator (i think).

I don't like wizard based application. I hope this is not wizard driven illustration application.