Silverlight - take back the web

Microsoft released a pretty nice developer reference for Silverlight:

As you can see Silverlight will support full crossbrowser compatibility, run on Windows and Linux Platforms, integrate several framework languages at once like ASP.NET, Ruby, Visual Basic and JScript and it will feature great media pipelines. It has built-in codec Support for playing VC-1 and WMV video, and MP3 and WMA audio within a browser. The VC-1 codec in particular is a big step forward for incorporating media within a web experience - since it supports playing high-quality video up to 720p (high definition). It is also the same codec format supported in all HD-DVD and Blueray DVD players, and is supported by hundreds of millions of mobile devices, XBOX 360, Windows Media Centers, and Windows Media Players (enabling someone to encode content once and run it on all of these devices + Silverlight unmodified). This enables you to use a huge library of existing video content and rich editing tools to generate video content with Silverlight. You also have the ability to stream your media content from any kind of source.

Silverlight is a big step forward, Silverlight 1.0 will be released this summer including a Beta Version of Silverlight 1.1. See the Developer Reference for the upcoming features (marked with “soon”).