Silverlight is illuminating

Just a quick note, in case you don't subscribe to Microsoft Blogs.

Microsoft has come up with a name for their new graphics platform, formerly known as "codename" WPF/E. The new platform, set to compete with Adobe Flash, is called Silverlight.

From a marketing perspective, an application that competes with (and actually surpasses) Flash, that is a cross-platform and cross-browser plug-in capable of supporting HD-type video, is something worth noting. The sample applications such as the video library and page-turn gizmo are really nice (and fast).

Of course, this application was not created solely for designing web-sites or making new whiz-bang presentations, but more likely designed also as a format to drive the next YouTube and be omnipresent in the evolution of the Network-TV-Internet led by YouTube and Joost.

Kudos to Mike Harsh and the rest of the guys at Microsoft.