Flash 10 has 90% penetration now, so it should be a "go" to develop for it if you've been waiting to fold some of the newer features into your applications but need to serve the widest possible audience.

Now on with what's new in Flash 10.1

Global error handling: Sort of a catch all for errors so you can gracefully deal with any uncaught errors.

Microphone access: You'll be able to deal with raw audio data from a microphone input (Something I've personally been waiting for since I began programming on the Flash platform)

User interaction: Multi touch including the ability to write custom touch gestures, and accelerometer access on mobile devices

Text and globalization: Improved  the new text layout engine released in 10.0, and new APIs

Content protection: Media encryption to protect premium video content. Access 2.0

Stream enhancements: It's easier to stream with any server. Useful for mobile devices briefly losing or changing networks won't hamper buffering, and skipping to the middle of a video you won't lose what was just buffered at the beginning of the video.

Live Media: More granular control over p2p communication, using groups to enable more efficient transmission.

Other: Lots of memory enhancements on mobile and desktop. Hardware acceleration for video content - H.264 and AAC. A circular buffer for playing large videos with little memory consumption. Vectors and images get similar gpu and memory improvements. When someone puts 80 youtube videos on one page Flash 10.1 will realize it's running low on memory and replace unloaded ones with a play button.

Read this for a detailed breakdown of new features.

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