WOW! Expression Blend 3 is IMPRESSIVE! Download it for free from this site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a04aa0ae-87be-4201-a65e-e792859122fc Here is a table for your justification to purchase Expression Blend 3 by your company when it comes out, you have time to make sure it gets in the fiscal year end budget. If you are student employee or intern, start talking to your boss, just because you get it for free from Dreamspark or MSDNAA doesn’t mean your company can use it for free. Changes My Comments Useful to justify purchase Importing Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator files Great that the Expression tool will tell you the features that are not supported! Useful Effects Support for WPF and Silverlight graphic effects Useful Gradient tool improvements Actually works, I thought the previous version required to much coordiation Not useful, do the bean counters understand what this means? Layout operation improvements Fixed annoying alignment problem Seems like a bug fix, certainly a reason to buy it, but keep it short for the bean counters Design-time annotations Looks like they are doing cut and paste from existing code, good idea! Useful, makes work more efficient Skinning Looks good` Put an improved skin in an image in the justification Creating templates from artwork Saves time Useful, saves time, time is money Improved support for VSM OMG, the state manager makes more sense to me now Useful, tell the bean counters that this is a NEEDED tool, will make your stuff better, stronger! State pinning Great Bean counters might not get it and it could confuse them.