Free Product Giveaway: Microsoft Expression Studio 3 ($599 retail)

The drawing is now closed. Thanks to Microsoft I have two copies of Expression Studio 3 to give away. All you have to do is leave one comment on this post telling Microsoft what you'd like to see in the next version of the product. If you are a newbie to the product, no worries, just leave your contact details. Make sure you use your real name and a valid e-mail address and I'll pick two lucky users at random at the end of the month. Winners: Lon Van W. from Boise, ID and Logan D. from Seattle, WA.

A big thanks to Microsoft for giving me two copies to give away.

Comments

[Maxim Fridental]

Dear Microsoft,

in the next version of the product, I would like to have the functionalities of the DeepZoom Composer and Silverlight Spy integrated into the Expression Blend.

I'd be glad if you made a free edition of Microsoft Blend. This edition may lack support of WPF, SketchFlow, integration with TFS and the features above, but be able to edit Silverlight XAMLs.

Thank you and thanks to Dan for the Give Away :)

[Felix Martini]

For the next version i would like a tool to design pixel shaders, optionally with benchmark support to estimate how the pixel shaders would perform with WPF and Silverlight.

[Roy Peterkofsky]

All of us here at Skytide would appreciate any enhanced support for the Silverlight Analytics Framework!

[Puneet Sarda]

Thanks for the Giveaway. I would like to see Sourcecode Control Providers integration.

[TJ Kudalis]

Dan, I'm new to Expression 3, but I'd love to have the chance to dig into it.

Thanks!

[graham]

I am new to it, but very interested in learning it. I would make it my mission in 2010 to do so.

[Gaurav]

I'm a bit new to the whole thing, but I'm learning to work with Silverlight and web page design, so I think this will be pretty useful.

[James Dunning]

I am just starting out, would love to learn more.
Thanks

[Sean]

I'm more of an old school Homesite user (!) but this looks very interesting! Would love to try it out and possibly demo for our department.

[Richard Mazurowski]

I would like more silverlight samples and integration built into the product and smooth streaming as well.

[Ed Vossler]

Hi, I am new at this, but I would really appreciate the opportunity to learn about this. Thanks!

[Brian]

I would love to try this out! I work for an insurance company and we are just getting into video encoding.

[Jon Ashley]

I'd like to see Flash export from expression, in addition to SilverLight. What, too soon?

[Lon Van Wyck]

I would like to use the suite to build a video page for my companies internal website. Also I like free stuff. thanks

[Jeff Parr]

Dan, Im new to Microsoft Expression and would like to give it a try.

[Fernando R.]

I would like to learn about it. Thanks.

[Mike Colburn]

I would like to see Live Smooth Stream encoding. Also the ability to encoder a video and export a stand alone silver light player with the video.

[Craig Seeman]

I'd like to see complete file frame by frame analysis available after a file is encoded.

[Bill Querry]

Dan-

I am new to Expression and would like to learn it.

Thanks.

[Big James]

Thank you Microsoft and Dan. Please count me in.

[Juan Aldape]

I have been an avid user of the complete Adobe suite for many years now and would like to have the opportunity to put M Expression head to head with Adobe. I hear M Ex has a great set of tools.

[Paul Mayne]

I'd like to see generative drawing tools.

[Fanfoot]

Also new to the whole streaming media encoding, but I'd love a copy to play with...

[Michael Myers]

I am new to this product, but am not new to streaming media and am looking into the Microsoft solutions at this time. It would be great to have a copy of this program to use for the media that I produce for my non-profit customers.

[Brent Hansen]

Wow! Great opportunity here with the giveaway, thanks! I have been using all sorts of design software and am interested in diving into the M Expression package. Looks like it has great capabilities!