But of course this is just the beginning of an interesting battle between Silverlight, Flex, Appollo and Open Lazo. Its going to be interesting to see who comes out as a winner.

But meanwhile the best part about this is that developers like myself can take their .NET skills and make sites that are going to be far richer and interactive compared to just plain and simple HTML + AJAX. I always wanted to learn Flash just for that but now finally I don’t have to! =)

I recently downloaded the Album Viewer application to get the feel for Silverlight.

The pitch is that Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web. Silverlight integrates with existing Web applications and, of course, almost all Web technologies you are already using like ASP.NET AJAX and/or ASP.NET in common.

More information can be found on their official site – http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/

It sounds pretty exiting. The power of Sliverlight combined with ASP.NET + AJAX can give Adobe Flex and Flash quite the run for its money!

I just downloaded the SDK. I might try and experiment with it when I get some chance.