According to this video broadcast, Microsoft is getting 1.5 million downloads per day of Silverlight. This new web technology is Microsoft’s answer to Flash. It makes the same promises in being cross-platform, cross-browser, and cross-device as Flash does. From a casual glance, Silverlight seems to be very similar to what Flash can do.

Will this technology overtake or replace Flash? Its hard to say at this point. I haven’t seen any web sites to really take advantage of Silverlight yet, but the technology is still new and it takes time to create compelling content and applications with it. The exciting thing about Silverlight is its tight integration with ASP.NET and AJAX. With Visual Studio being the best development environment and ASP.NET/IIS growing in market share against Apache, Silverlight will be widely used by programmers and web developers for building web sites.

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