Scott Guthrie talks about silverlight 2.0 and it is looking to be exactly what I hoped it would be. It seems they are really aiming for enabling RIA applications, but cross platform, cross browser.

The big announcement is the inclusion of built-in controls. It was a big disappointment to me that they were not included in silverlight 1.0 or 1.1, but they are included now!

My take on this is that it will revolutionize the way we build software. As you might know, I've been involved in creating a big RIA application with xbap. Although it was great, we did not have a very good story on the use of the 'browser'. I was reminded time and time again that it was weird to use the browser, while it was not cross platform or even cross browser. We had good reasons to go for xbap none the less, but I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do with Silverlight 2.0.