Adobe AIR vs MS Silverlight

While I like the Adobe AIR technology, I have the strong impression that MS & Silverlight is beating the pants off of Adobe. I see Silverlight "noise" in blogs, press, etc. constantly, but almost nothing about Adobe AIR. Silverlight is talking about 3.0, Adobe AIR just announced v1.5.

With that said, I've seen several Adobe AIR applications I find useful. In fact, I have three installed (Jott Express, Twirl, AlertThingy) - and I didn't go looking for something related to AIR I just found these useful applications on the web and they a /happened to be/ Adobe AIR. I've never seen anything that was useful from Silverlight. The only reason I have Silverlight installed is because I'm an MS-platform programmer and I'm learning it. So that is a great testament to the technology and maturity of Adobe AIR. It just seems Adobe isn't getting the word out.

I must admit, my blog list and reading list certainly has an Microsoft bias, but I do subscribe to several Adobe/Flash/AIR and generic RIA related blogs. Due to Microsoft's incredible breadth of marketshare and products, I think that is a fact of life and Adobe has to deal with it and should have been prepared to do so. They have to find a way to reach out to the MS-platform programmer community.   

In short, my impression is that Adobe is loosing the PR war with MS Silverlight. They're not loosing it based on technology or even tools (which while inferior to Visual Studio, aren't terrible).    What do you think? Leave a comment, lets discuss...