As far as runtime, think of Silverlight like Flash. However, progammatically, Silverlight has the core .Net framework inside it and it runs on Linux, Apple, and Windows machines. There are still areas where Silverlight needs improvement to be an application platform. For example, databinding, but Microsoft is working on it.

>Reading the following article, the web is dead
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>http://www.ftponline.com/vsm/2007_08/magazine/departments/guestop/
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>I was interested to know if any of you used Silverlight and what do you think about it. is it as important the author claims?
>"Silverlight 1.1 is in an alpha state right now, but I believe it represents the future of the Web. The Web isn't dead, but it is about to undergo the biggest transformation in the past decade."
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>Mo