[suhair]

"yet outside of Flash/Sliverlight battle they don't cross each other paths" - what about Microsoft's Expression Studio and similar Adobe products?

[Tyrannosaurs]

Technically they cross but only in the way MS Office crosses paths with Apple's iWork - that is one utterly runs the other one down.

Hardly anyone is paying for Expression Studio in the way they are for Adobe CS. The people using it are doing so because it was bundled.

[gmac]

only in the way MS Office crosses paths with Apple's iWork - that is one utterly runs the other one down

Which runs which down? For my requirements, Keynote > PowerPoint, Excel > Numbers, Pages ~= Word.

[Tyrannosaurs]

That may be so but based on sales most people who choose to part with cash pick Office as with Adobe CS over Expressions Studio.