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lol @ cross platform compatibility.

Breathless unsubstantiated idiocy.

Yeah it may be cross-platform on the client-side but it strikes me as yet another attempt by MS to pwn the web.

has microsoft seeded the public with mindless blogs? its crazy how much crap is spewing over SILVERLIGHT (worst name ever) lately.

Yet another Microsoft revolution...

Silverlight is intended for Microsoft Developers that currently use Visual Studio in combination with AJAX, and some flash. Silverlight provides these developers with a "platform" to tie various technologies together under one roof, while making them browser agnostic. Sure Java has tried this in the past, but I truly believe nothing works as well as Silverlight for an all around development platform.

Silverlight is NOT intended to replace flash, AJAX, Windows Media, or ASP.net. It is intended to make developing applications that use all of these technologies easier. With the release of Silverlight, you will see hundreds of more Media Rich web applications invading the web.

Flash/Apollo is great, Java works, Flash is awesome. These will never go away! Silverlight however will give the millions of Visual Studio developers an amazing tool to develop web applications of the future!

Microsoft is definitely playing catch up here, but I really believe in this case, they have not only caught up, but surpassed anything that is currently out there. Current developers that do not use Visual Studio, keep using what you are using, and leave Silverlight to the Microsoft Shops. You already have great tools! This is just another tool, and in this case, a better development platform than anything else out there. It will be interesting to see websites that use Silverlight vs sites that do not.

Funny that most stories on dzone have no comment at all but this one sticks out. Microsoft hate can cause even the laziest to move their fingers...