Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), MCSD.Net, MCT. He published an interesting article on 8/9/07 on ComputerWorld.com regarding Silverlight. In this article, he presents a balanced view of Silverlight. As Shawn wrote, there is "so much Silverlight information available right now, it is difficult to distill what is important and what is hype. Shawn has done a good job at highlighting 10 things that you should know about Microsoft's Silverlight. He covers the following chapters:
- Silverlight Avoids Cross-Browser/OS Issues
- Silverlight 1.1 Is the Real Story
- Silverlight Uses Technologies Your Developers Already Know
- Silverlight UI Is just Markup -- Like HTML
- Silverlight and AJAX Technologies Are Complementary
- Silverlight Allows Developers and Designers to Work Together
- Silverlight Deliverables Are Not Atomic
- Silverlight Is New
- Silverlight XAML versus WPF XAML
- Silverlight Is a Great Way to Learn XAML
If you are a startup interested in building on Silverlight, I also wrote a couple blogs that might be of interest to you:
If you are developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) on Silverlight, please let me know. I am very interested in seeing what very creative startups can build using this (great 
) - technology.
