It seems that suddenly everyone is impressed with Microsoft again, as they introduce their rival to Flash called Silverlight.
At this point, the news is more for web developers to get excited about, but it seems that this technology may surely affect most users of the web at some point. Robert Scoble describes why:
“For end users at home it’ll look slicker, feel better, and have far better video quality than anything Google can throw at Windows users with YouTube/Flash/etc.”