Microsoft has temporarily halted development work on some aspects of its upcoming professional graphics application as it tries to its other next-generation tools to market.

Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer is seen as the first serious attempt by Microsoft to Challenge Adobe Photoshop.

In an interview with ZDNet Australia, Smith explained that Microsoft was taking so long to bring Graphic Designer to market because the company had put "a lot" of the development work for the application "on pause", until sibling products and Vista could be finalised.

Smith also said that Microsoft sees Graphic Designer solely as a companion product for other products in the Expression range -- namely Interactive Designer and Web Designer.

Interactive Designer is for building the user interface and layout of interactive Web or Windows applications, while Web Designer is purely aimed at Web site construction.

The Expression range is meant to ease coordination between software developers who write code and graphic artists who create visual elements, using the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) which Microsoft developed.

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Sorce: ZDNET
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