Will silverlight complete the market of flex that flex has covered till now?

microsoft has inttroduced silverlight to complete flex flash...

will that possible ? microsoft doesnt have powerful designing tool ...like flash..

i m looking to learn silverlight  / flex.... so i want to get to knw ....which 1 would be better carreer opportunity for me ..as far as market is concern..?

thanks & regard

 The best place to ask about silverlight is www.silverlight.net

Anyhow...I notice a very interesting comment you made: "microsoft doesnt have powerful designing tool...like flash"

Have you heard of expresson studio, or more specifically expression blend? Expression blend makes deevloping WPF and Silverlight design a breeze. The main concern about silverlight is market penetration, which stands at about 28%. The market penetration is increasing everyday, and some major events are being covered by silverlight. As a result silverlight penetration will keep increasing.

One major benefit of silverlight is that you use existing development languages with exisiting tools like VS. Also, the VS + expression combo enables your designers and developers to work together seemlessly. Tooling support for silverlight is trully awesome.

Silverlight (from 2.0 onwards) features a mini .net runtime that runs on the browser. It is not interpreted code. It's compiled code and runs very fast.

Silverlight supports h264 encoding for video, and can be used for live streaming. This is something that the flash world can't do. This is one reason that google used silverlight to display a live event instead of using their flash player.

thanks for yr valuable comment..

actually i have started learning silverlight..so i want to know the future trend & thts why i hv posted this post..

intially i was looking to learn flex that currently in market is very popular.. & clients are asking to develop their websites in flex..

but i came to know abt the similar technology silverlight.. & power of it..so i moved on it.. so i wanted to knw abt some apsect & futurew trend of it..& thts why i posted my query..

thanks for yr reply..

 Well, a lot has happened since my last post. Silverlight 3 has been released and it's kicks flex ass all over the ground for line of business apps and high quality video. Built in validation, better theming, navigation support (integrated with browser urls!), h264 video, live streaming, out of browser support (cross platform), pixel shader support, 3D projections...

Only things it can't do at present is using the microphone / webcam. SL4's already in the works