Rich Internet Application user interfaces are the new competitive areas of focus on the competitive landscape and Microsoft's new "Silverlight" looks like a formidable player. It lets Web developers and designers create "rich, engaging user experiences with 2-D graphics, animation, images, media, and video," to use Microsoft's own description. Silverlight competes in this arena with Adobe Flash and Flex, with OpenLaszlo and Curl, and with a variety of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) frameworks.