Flash Player 10 is out. A co-incidence perhaps?

It looks like Adobe have just released version 10 of their Flash Player with a bunch of enhancements. Now that Silverlight 2 is out the competition really begins.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Adobe-Releases-Flash-Player-10/?kc=rss

Now that the foundation is laid (a subset of the .net runtime across browsers and operating systems) it will be interesting to see how regular future releases are as the competition heats up. The introduction of Silverlight is good for us but also good for Flash developers as it encourages Adobe to continuously look at ways in which they can improve their Flash/Air offering. Will we see Silverlight enhancements every year (e.g. announced at Mix) or sooner? The fact that the Silverlight player updates itself may make this more likely than not.

I’m looking forward to the PDC to see what is planned for future releases (printing support would be nice ;-) ).

John