Microsoft Interactive Designer

While attending a meeting with special guest Micheal Greenwood ( http://www.creativefactor.com/) I learned a good deal about Microsoft's new product, "Interactive Designer" it promises the ability to create immense 2d and 3d websites, presentations and environments, can handle almost any known extension for importing files, and can work on any platform and any browser, by use of a proprietary plugin. I have mixed feelings about this new product, given the track record of MS. But I do not doubt it completely, and after the presentation I was a bit excited to delve into this product, and at the very least, learn it and offer it as a skillset to employers (in the same way Powerpoint knowledge is a powerful asset to any design portfolio, even though it produces such cheesy graphics and transitions)

I have downloaded the trial, and am going to test it soon enough, so I'll let you know what I find and if I like it, love it or despise it.